{"id":958,"date":"2007-12-14T16:02:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T06:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/my-2nd-book-is-available-mysql-51-cluster-dba-certification-study-guide\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T16:02:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T06:02:46","slug":"my-2nd-book-is-available-mysql-51-cluster-dba-certification-study-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/my-2nd-book-is-available-mysql-51-cluster-dba-certification-study-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2nd book is available! (MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBA Certification Study Guide)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neither of the books I&#8217;ve been an author of has been just me. For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1590597796?tag=flamin-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1590597796&amp;adid=1ZWTRQZACC9HYBNDGNZ6&amp;\">Practical MythTV<\/a> (Christmas is coming, buy it for all your TV and tech loving friends!), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stillhq.com\">Michael Still<\/a> and I worked hard to get a well rounded and <strong>practical <\/strong>(not to mention <strong>good<\/strong>)<strong> <\/strong>book. I think we succeeded &#8211; certainly has gotten positive reviews (check the amazon page).<\/p>\n<p>For my second endeavor (just to make it fun, I was working on both at the same time) we have a much longer list of authors. The aim was to write a study guide for those wishing to be certified in MySQL Cluster. Being a developer with a fair bit of knowledge in the product (and somebody who also presents and writes) &#8211; I was a natural fit to join the team (some may say &#8220;roped into the team&#8221;&#8230; and they could possibly be me, but I couldn&#8217;t possibly comment).<\/p>\n<p>My fellow authors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.plasticfish.info\/\">Jon Stephens<\/a><br \/>\nAmong other things, he&#8217;s brought the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/refman\/5.1\/en\/mysql-cluster.html\">MySQL Cluster<\/a> section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/refman\/5.1\/en\/\">MySQL Manual<\/a> forward leaps and bounds. He also edited the study guide &#8211; no doubt a daunting task.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mike.kruckenberg.com\/\">Mike Krukenberg<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMySQL-Experts-Voice-Open-Source%2Fdp%2F159059505X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1197612310%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=flamin-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Pro MySQL<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flamin-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> (along with Jay Pipes) and numerous blog posts on MySQL and related topics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rpbouman.blogspot.com\/\">Roland Bouman<\/a><br \/>\nWho took on the brave task of the actual Certification. This is a certification to be proud of &#8211; really makes sure that people deserve it without being overly hard or tricky.<\/li>\n<li>Solomon Chang<br \/>\nfounding member of <a href=\"http:\/\/lampsig.org\/new\/\" target=\"_lampsig\">LAMPSIG<\/a> of Los Angeles and a professional DBA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, the book is now shipping, from lulu.com (an on-demand printing service) for $49.99USD.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/1297960\">MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBA Certification Study Guide by Jon Stephens, Mike Kruckenberg, Roland Bouman, Stewart Smith, Solomon Chang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It feels good to have it out there now. <a href=\"http:\/\/dveeden.livejournal.com\/2636.html\">Daniel va Eeden has received his copy<\/a> (shipping box and all!). This is another book you should buy for<strike> all your database friends<\/strike>\u00c2\u00a0 everybody you&#8217;ve ever met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither of the books I&#8217;ve been an author of has been just me. For Practical MythTV (Christmas is coming, buy it for all your TV and tech loving friends!), Michael Still and I worked hard to get a well rounded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/my-2nd-book-is-available-mysql-51-cluster-dba-certification-study-guide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","category-work-et-al"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-fs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1132,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/mysql-51-cluster-dba-certification-study-guide-available-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":958,"position":0},"title":"MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBA Certification Study Guide available again!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-06-30","format":false,"excerpt":"Vervante Books Etc -- MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBA Certification Study Guide Only $40. Written by absolute brilliant people (and me). Needing to learn MySQL Cluster so you can go and use it? test it out? work out if it's for you? Get this book!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;mysql&quot;","block_context":{"text":"mysql","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/work-et-al\/mysql\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":846,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/its-here-its-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":958,"position":1},"title":"It&#8217;s here! It&#8217;s here!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-06-15","format":false,"excerpt":"So, I hear you ask (ask dagnammit!), what does a MySQL Cluster hacker do when not hacking MySQL Cluster? Well, Today, a box arrived: I eagerly opened the box... eager for what was inside: Hrrm... this does look promising! 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