lefred

lefred

I am MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC. I joined the MySQL Community Team in May 2016. I have been an OpenSource and MySQL consultant for more than 15 years. My favorite topics are High Availability and Performance.

Speaking at Percona Live London 2011

If you want to meet me, I will be speaking at Percona Live in London this October I will be presenting during the two days, on Monday Oct 24th during the tutorials I will present the MySQL DBA Swiss army knife. This is a technical session about the daily tools you must control as MySQL DBA. You will have your hands in the oil as we say in French and we gonna discover together how useful and powerful are those tools. We will cover different topics like performance, maintenance, ... On Tuesday I will present two talks during the conference: 1. Deploy MySQL like a devops sysadmin 2. MySQL partitioning: the Spider solution I hope to see you there and if you plan to join PLUK 2011 and you still don't register, I can provide you reduction voucher code, just contact me by email or on twitter.

Fedora on mac book (air) : wireless and kernel 2.6.40-4.fc15

If like me you are using Fedora on your mac book, after the week-end and in case of reboot, your wifi should not work any more :( Good, news, it's easy to fix, just add the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl-blacklist.conf blacklist bcma Restart and enjoy wifi back ;-) ps: of course you need to use: kmod-wl-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.6.x86_64 kmod-wl-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.6.x86_64

new professional perspective

For nearly 4 years, I invested myself in the growth of Inuits. At the beginning we were 5 to believe in this project and now, 4 years afterwards, Inuits has become the Belgian reference in the world of open-source consultancy companies. We started in Flanders, then in Wallonia with Esquimaux and now in the Netherlands with Eskimo (and I think it won't stop there). Having the feeling of the achieved duty, I had opportunity of working for a company which, for me, represents most the open-source point of views, of technical excellence and the opportunity to spend more time with my family. I was honored when Percona showed interest in me and I thus decided for that new challenge! -- thanks to all my friends/former colleagues/collaborators who played the role of references ;-) -- I whish good luck to all my colleagues of Inuits/Esquimaux, I appreciate them very much. They can always count on me if they need help and I hope to see them all at Fosdem and other free software or devops conferences !! I'm also always available for a drink or for sushi's :-) I also really appreciated the 10 years collaboration in open-source I shared with Kris Buytaert (sdog) June 16th will be my first day in my new position ! Percona here I come ;-)

Google calendar support in Gnome 3 evolution ?

During my test and discovery phase of Fedora 15, I noticed that Evolution doesn't support anymore google calendar... is it on purpose ? why ? Or do I need to install some other package ? I found this feature in Fedora 14 something very useful ! I hope this is something that will be fixed in the final release. In Fedora 14 (evolution-2.32.2-1.fc14.x86_64) : In Fedora 15 :

Gnome 3 and my favorite window focus and raise behavior

Yesterday night I installed Fedora 15 Alpha to see and test the gnome-shell (gnome 3) improvements. I stopped to test for one reason: I was not able to setup my favorite behavior for window's focus. What I like (this is mandatory, that's also the one major reason why I don't use Mac OSX daily) is that the focus follows the mouse but doesn't raises the window ! After having "googled" a bit, I tried to install gnome-tweak-tool... but it didn't help for this task... :( The solution is to use gconf-editor and changing the default value (click) of /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode to sloppy. Now I'm very happy and I can continue my tests of Gnome 3.

As MySQL Community Manager, I am an employee of Oracle and the views expressed on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle.

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