Ieri festa di Natale alla scuola di Gabriele. Canti natalizi e mercatino dei libri.
Ci sarebbe anche stata la festa al nido di Luca ma abbiamo dovuto paccare per un bel 38 e passa di febbre del piccolo protagonista. Aveva imparato delle canzoncine carine che ci ha comunque cantato in un piccolo show privato.
La febbre purtroppo ci rompe un po’ le uova nel paniere, mi sa che dovremo rimandare la salita al lago a dopo Natale. Beh, poco male, il Natale lo passerò con le persone a cui voglio più bene in assoluto!

On what was said by Monty.

I think that in any dispute there are never two separate positions; there’s no a “black position”, there’s no a “white position”. I think about a “gray gradient” where there exists several different positions and opinions. Maybe the truth in this case is “gray” colored!
As a good Italian I stay in the middle thinking that there are some truths in the criticism of Monty, but at the same time I think there’s also exaggeration.
But mine is not a relevant opinion! I don’t have a deep knowledge of MySQL AB organization and I don’t know all the facts and the people involved. My contribution to the discussion is very simple and humble, just to say that I’m using 5.1 version since August 2008 in a more than 2 million queries per day production environment and I never experienced a server crash (ok, sometimes it crashed … but that was my own fault!).
For the goals of my applications I found partitioning useful and powerful. In my experience MySQL 5.1 works!

Well, it is certainly true that there are bugs, but there has never been a software product without them, even when declared stable.

In an optimistic way, I feel Monty wanted to encourage MySQL AB and all the developers to do their best in the future to develop a better product. If there were errors somewhere in the development of 5.1 I think it’s time to correct them. Errors are a significant part of human nature, we couldn’t do anything without them. There is no progress without errors.

I’m one of the winners of the MySQL 5.1 Use Case Competition and as an award I won a dinner with Monty. I would dine with him ardently (note for the cook: I like fish ) and I hope this could be still possible.