This morning while being half a sleep, I was delighted to see an announcement email for Drizzle’s Google Summer of Code projects in my inbox. Congratulations to not only those that are taking part in GSoC via Drizzle but all of you participating in GSoC this year. Here’s the actual announcement email that contains the list of Drizzle projects that will take place this year.
This year I’m mentoring Djellel Eddine Difallah on “A Memcached Query Cache Plugin for Drizzle“. This happens to be a project I abandoned a long time ago so I was happy to see someone digging it up and seeking interest in it.
I’m excited to work with Djellel over the summer. Looking forward to having lots of fun with all the technical challenges and most importantly hacking under the open community environment.
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This time last year I obtained a domain called raindb.org which I was intending on using for my storage engine project. RainDB was the project name I had in mind for BlitzDB at the time. Since I now have a different project name, I no longer have any use for this domain.
So, rather than letting it go to waste I’d like to contribute this domain for yet another potential open source database project. Your project can be anything – MySQL Storage Engine, Drizzle Storage Engine, Embedded Library, Stand Alone Server, whatever. RainDB would be a good name for a highly concurrent database since the analogy is – “it can be rained on”.
If you’re interested please feel free to email, tweet, or even just leave a comment on this blog entry.
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I just got back from a vacation in Hong Kong and Macau. It was my first visit to Hong Kong which tuned out to be a really enjoyable one. I’d certainly love to visit Hong Kong again. People were nice, beautiful scenery and cantonese food was delicious. Getting a free business class upgrade definitely made the trip better too.
However, what truly made our trip was the taxi driver we met on the last day. He was hardly looking at the road and kept talking to us in the back by turning around and facing us. We were all freaked out when he started drawing pictures to communicate with us while doing over 100km/h (62mph) on the highway.
It was also nice to catch up with an old University friend who is living in Hong Kong. It’s always great to see that your fellow alumni is doing well. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to visit Hong Kong again but I hope for it to be soon.
You can see more pictures here.
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