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June Web Montag in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

June 3rd, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

It was a beautiful day to start with, but rain and thunderstorms did mess with the barbeque planning Germans are famous for. So, lots of people attended Web Montag yesterday!

Darren Cooper opened Web Montag this time. He repeated a few times “1st of September”, which is the next meeting in Frankfurt. For next events he really want to see more non-technical presentations. I think that’s indeed a good thing. Darren also got some good jokes, seriously!

Andreas Demmer was first speaker, talking about Presentation Zen. It made us, the other speakers look bad afterwards.. just kidding! I knew bits and pieces about this approach for doing presentations, but it’s what it is: an approach, not a method. I still can learn lots.

My talk was about MySQL Proxy, but to be honest it went not well. First of all, my cold was still there, speaking through the nose. Additionally, I have a terrible buzzing in my left ear making my voice irritating me and I was looking to much for the German words. I’m not really preparing enough for these short talks. Anyway, there will be video about it!

The important links are:

Michael Vog talked about the Google Web Toolkit or GWT. This was probably nice of the Web Designers in the audience. Particular interesting for me was the talk about Selenium IDE by Thorsten Biedenkapp. I’ll probably never use it, but I made something similar in my previous job testing regressions and errors in websites. The last speaker, Sebastian Fastner, introduced the audience to OSGi. So, quite some Java stuff that evening!

Next Web Montag in Frankfurt am Main is on 1st September 2008, and if all goes well the following is on 1st December. Hopefully more talkers will be present, and not doing to much technical stuff. Maybe some ‘tracks’ can be introduced, but that might it make to complex again.
Was a nice evening, hope everyone enjoyed and learned something. Or at least got interested in checking out more stuff!
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  1. Andreas Demmer
    June 3rd, 2008 at 20:06 | #1
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    As you said: The Zen Method is an approach and definetly not fitting for each and every situation. Especially technical presentations are nearly impossible to do Zen-like.
    I liked your presentation very much and will evaluate the MySQL proxy. Seems like a good thing to have.

    Greets,
    Andreas

  2. Jayant Kumar
    June 5th, 2008 at 14:31 | #2
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    As far as i know innodb has been aquired by oracle some time ago (i think in 2005).
    http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/3561731
    http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005490.html
    http://sql-info.de/mysql/oracle-acquires-innodb.html

    So oracle can pull innodb from mysql whenever it wants to…

    You have your own blog – it would be beneficial to you if you run some ads on your blog. There is no harm in providing users external links to the information that they are interested in.

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