Santa Clara here I come
yep – going to be in Santa Clara next week for some company training. Excited about it since it will be covering areas I am not strong on. Only sucky part is shoving 7 days of training into 5 days.
yep – going to be in Santa Clara next week for some company training. Excited about it since it will be covering areas I am not strong on. Only sucky part is shoving 7 days of training into 5 days.
[Warning: There is a *lot* of gushing in this post, so feel free to skip it]
Can you believe I have managed to survive my first year at MySQL… and I haven’t gone mad yet… well not much anyway
The year has gone by so fast I didn’t realize my anniversary came and went until it was already past.
Anyway, just wanted to post that I still LOVE my job and the people I work with and for. I am constantly learning and questioning and they actually not only like that – they encourage it. Go figure. Admittedly I always feel like a dunce because of it, but I can force my ego to handle it.
This is by far the best job I have ever had. And I have been lucky enough to have some great jobs. Special thanks go out to my “Boss Men” for all they do. You are what keeps my job so awesome – no matter the changes – and I know it.
Ok – time to stop gushing and get myself back to work.
Just wanted to get the word out that I have finally booked my flight for attending tek and will be arriving in Chicago early in the morning on the 18th and leaving in the evening on the 23rd.
If you are going to be there also and have time on your hands… maybe we can get together for a little bit of sight seeing in the city. I’m game for just about anything though museums, theatre and typical tourist stuff is what I enjoy. Gahh – why did it have to be a week that the cubs are away! I would have paid $100 for good seats to watch them play in Wrigley Field.
Anyway – drop me a line if you want to get together and do something.
I had a good time at the conf and my talk seemed to go over pretty well. I somehow ended up in the largest session room (I admit to feeling a bit overwhelmed). Attendance seemed to be at a decent level, though I think I may have overwhelmed some of them a bit with the information. Had lots of questions at the end and I went slightly over time. I guess the ultimate indicator of how things went is that no one fell asleep during the talk.
As far as I could tell there were about 5 geek girls there… not a particularly large group. Many of the attendees were interested in what we do and how we do it. Only 1 person asked if it was a place for single women to get together (there is always one in the group). After clearing things up a bit with them, they moved on.
All in all – not bad I guess.
Just a quick reminder that I will be at the Florida Linux Show this Monday representing PHPWomen and giving a talk on MySQL performance tuning. My talk starts at 09:30 and afterwards I will be at either the PHPWomen’s booth or the Sun Microsystems booth or the Jax PHP User group booth. Feel free to grab me in the corridors or stop by the booth and say hi.
It has been a long time since I did a presentation to a group of people. Yesterday I finally got back in the saddle and gave one on memcached to my local PHP user/WEb group. I thought I did pretty good though I have to admit to being REALLY nervous (red face and sweating) but in a way that is half the fun. If I don’t push myself out of my comfort zone, I don’t grow as a person and a developer.
Anyway – the presentation seemed to go pretty well (no one ran out screaming or throwing rotten fruit and vegetables at me) and we had an interesting discussion afterwards. I will be posting my slides somewhere later for all to see and comment or laugh at later.
UPDATE: You can find the presentation here
I did – I admit it. I watched the inauguration saw the goof and yes – was moved to tears at times. Yeah – I am a sap and that hopeful.
Yes – I am late again with this 7 things meme But since Matthew tagged me, here I go.
7 things you may or may not know about me:
So there are my 7 things. Now it is my turn to tag my friends.
And here are the rules:
as most have noticed I have had a bit of problems with my site so have not been able to write on it for a while. I am still working through everything but hopefully will get it all straightened out.
Anyway – since the last time I posted a lot has happened. In no particular order
And a bunch of other stuff that I am sure I forgot now.
Yep – Ivo got me. And worst part is that I can NOT argue with his assessment of me and my personality. Busted! LOL
Funny part is that it was a friend of mine from work (non-PHP related) who told me about the blog post today since I was offline almost all day (in Las Vegas for work) so I couldn’t give a wise ar$e retort (hate not being able to do that – or at least missing the opportunity to do it)… And what is the first thing I do when I get back to my computer – look it up – and bust up laughing. Rock on Ivo!