MySQL User Conference 2009

Thought i will update you guys a bit about MySQL UC this year.

As you may already know i will be holding a session together with Anders Karlsson from MySQL/SUN about MySQL HA. We will walk through different solutions and mention pros and cons of them. I will also present how we solved the HA situation at bwin games ab.

Those of you who still have not booked their tickets and entry to MySQL UC, i have a surprise for you! Book your entry now and use this promotion code “mys09fsp” and you will get 20% off your total cost! Isn’t that awesome? Just enter the code at the signup/booking page and you will receive the discount.

Looking forward to see you guys at MySQL UC in Santa Clara. Write me a email if you are going and we’ll try to hook up. Probably there will be a “nordic night” as last year. If you are from around the Nordic/Scandinavian region, make sure to join us. We’ll probaly be going out and eat something nice and just talk random stuff.

So, what should you do now if you didn’t already do it? Go to http://www.mysqlconf.com and register for this years MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara / California.

Cheers

fit-pc slim

I bought a fit-pc slim a while ago, but could not install it untill a couple of days back. Did not really have any time to spend on something like this. Anyway, i was installing Ubuntu 8.10 Server, and hit a bug in the Ubuntu installation.
I was installing the OS on a USB Flash drive since i want the box to be stable and not use a lot of power.
When Ubuntu 8.10 writes down the grub mbr, it will not overwrite the mbr if grub is already installed. I dont know if this is the case in other versions of Ubuntu. However, you will not have this problem if you have a fresh USB Flash drive without a mbr written, but if you have used the Flash drive for some other installation before.

To fix this I booted the system on a bootable GRUB CD and rewrote the mbr from the GRUB shell/OS.

If you don’t know how to do this there is a bootable superGRUB image that can be installed on USB Flash, Floppy or CD-ROM. It has some fancy menus that will guide you through different processes. If you want to learn more about GRUB it is also a great resource to just start up and play around with.
I believe SuperGRUB can be found at http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

Reopen

I have had this blog closed for the public since i was running on old WordPress software. I had some weird things popping up on the blog and i figured that until i have time to dig in-depth into what has really happened I should just close it so things don’t get messed up by people that do not have better things to do. 🙂

I just upgraded to the latest and grates, and man is there a difference. I love the new dashboard and everything. I can truly recommend upgrading if you are thinking about it.

Massive amount of unpublished posts

Just realized that i have 22 unpublished posts. I have to go through them to see what posts are feasible to keep and publish and which ones to delete. Why do i do stuff like that? I should publish right away..

Speaker at MySQL UC 2009

I together with Anders Karlsson at MySQL/Sun will be speaking about MySQL HA. The title of the talk is MySQL HA, Pros, cons and real world experiences.

We will do a walkthrough of technologies that can be used, pros, cons, common pitfalls and how we solved it at bwin games ab (company i work at).

I will post more information about this later. Just wanted to share my excitement. 🙂

MySQL UC 2008

I visited MySQL UC 2008 in Santa Clara. It was as usual fun and I met a lot of interesting people. There were 2 other guys from my company attending (Urban and Rickard). My old boss Per did also attend. All in all it was a fun trip. There was a presentation that really stood out of the whole mass, and it was Dick Hardt with his presentation about identity 2.0. This guys presentation technique is really something different. I have tried to find a recording of it online but have been unsuccessful. If i find it later i will add it to this post.

The whole California visit was not only work. I managed to squeeze in a week of vacation to it. Traveled around NoCal, did some shopping and met some friends.

Edit, i found a recording of Dick Hardts presentation:http://blip.tv/file/981411

MySQL UC 2007, Santa Clara – CA

so, i am going to attend the MySQL UC 2007 in Santa Clara, CA – USA next week. I am actually traveling tomorrow so i can get rid of the worst jet-lag til’ the conference starts the 23:rd of april.

Will try to keep something here updated on the way…

Time to hit this baby off.

Plans just dont turn out as you want them to sometimes.. Originally i wanted to use this setup of wordpress to just share stuff.. Well, as time is not your best friend at all times, I have not written many sentences here..

Almost 6 months from when i put it up i have what, 2 posts now?

Things at work are going well, and i am planning a vacation this summer with my girlfriend to actually go to visit some family that i apparently have in Kraków/Poland.

I will also try to renovate the kitchen at the same time. Before we leave off for vacation i will remove everything from the kitchen, and demolish some walls and remove some wardrobes in the hallway.. then i will have a painter spackel and paint the walls and the roof.. I will put new spotlights in the hallway and the kitchen, so a new roof has to be installed..

well, i’ll get back with some more information when i know what i will do completely..

Ongame becomes bwin

The company i started to work for a while back (Ongame) changed it’s name to bwin.. Ongame was bought up by betandwin not long ago (like 6 months or something) and now the whole group is changing their name to bwin.

You can read more about bwin AG at http://www.bwin.org and you can play at http://www.bwin.com

For those who does not know what bwin/betandwin does, they are the biggest online sportsbetting, casino and poker company in Europe. The Swedish branch (where i work) is the division who develops, maintains and operates the poker platform (old ongame e-solutions ab). Our office is located in the center of Stockholm, in the main central station building.

Same company, new name, same work new work.. :S

New job; Ongame E-solutions AB

So i begun my new job at Ongame e-solutions AB today.

My position changed a bit until it was time for me to actually begin (from the time i signed the contract) so i was a little surprised when i got to work.

So, i enter the office, and there is kaos all over. Terrible incident had raged the night…

I was not much of help this day.. I just got there and felt confused because i had no computer no nothing.. just sitting there looking like a goof.. 😉