A chocolate pie for MySQL™ 5.1 GA
November 29, 2008 - 12:46 am - by Santo Leto 
As you probably already know, yesterday the GA version of MySQL™ 5.1 has been released :)
To celebrate this great event, I have organized a little event with some of my friends @ Trieste University, Italy.
Since I am a physics alumn and I still have some friends who study physics, I decided to organize a sort of unofficial “Trieste MySQL™ 5.1 GA Day” to have some funny moments with them at the Physics Department ;)
I am using MySQL™ 5.1 since the third public version (5.1.5-beta, January 2006) and I have installed and tested all the 24 versions from 5.1.5-beta :)
For the occasion, I bought a chocolate pie and a good Italian sweet wine (Ramandolo).
I also bring:
- the Limited Edition ;) “MySQL™ Contributor” polo shirt I won for the position 10 of the MySQL™ Use Case Competition
- the Sun | MySQL™ bag I received during the latest MySQL™ Central Europe Conference
- one of the Sakila Dolphins Giuseppe threw to the roman students attending the event organized by the Sun | MySQL™ Italian Team last May, when Marten Mikos came in Italy
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The pie dedication I agreed with the confectioner was “Welcome MySQL 5.1 G.A. November 27, 2008″ but I don’t know why ;) he changed “MySQL 5.1 G.A.” in “5.1. G.A. - M.y.S.Q.L.” :-/
Also I gave a good splash of the Dolphin but it seems that he drew a ornithorhynchus rather than a dolphin ;)
BTW, the pie was delicious!
I would like to virtually dedicate this pie to all Developers, Q.A. Engineers, Support Engineers and the other friends @ Sun | MySQL™.
Especially, I would like to cite Miguel Solorzano & Sveta Smirnova @ MySQL™ Bug Tracking and, of course, friends @ Community Team.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have the time to organize a bigger event and invite you to join :( since I am very busy with my work and the MBA in this period. It has been a sort of private event (thanks Luca for the photos and Enrico for placing your car to my disposal) but it has been very fun!
I have uploaded some pics here, enjoy!
Hi Santo, thanks a lot for the cake and the celebration! Keep up the good work. I wish I could have been able to enjoy the party :)
LenZ
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