ZendCon 2011
17 - 20 Oct 2011 at Santa Clara Convention Center

Learned quite a lot in this talk. Good overview of the different design patterns. Maybe small bits of (pseudo-) code would make things even better.

Interesting talk. Would even be more interesting if we were also shown how to persist the presented solutions

Much more engaging and interesting than I expected, given the topic. Good information with some immediately practicable stuff.

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Awesome presentation. Really felt like you knew the topic in and out, and delivered with a sense of humor, kept it fun.

Two suggestions:

* You really can't complain about a certain anonymous person is using a "name" and "name_utf" column to make a point and do the same thing 30 seconds later yourself :-)

* Because of the time, there was a lot of room for so more examples, or maybe some demo's on how mysql do the casting when joining or comparing utf8 and latin1 characters.

On the whole, good talk.

Thanks for the talk... nice to see the technicalities laid out like this by someone that works with this stuff on a regular basis for those of us who just happen to encounter it from time to time.

Great talk, nice and simple.

I think going into some of the more technical stuff like the BOM and showing different character set encoded strings in a hex viewer would have been beneficial.

PS, as soon as there is a .deb for MySQL 5.5, I'll upgrade from MySQL 5.1!

please keep the introduction short and sweet.
I like the statistics slides, allows the user to benchmark what they are dealing with.

please talk more about best practices and ideas rather than just speaking of what you have implemented.

I'm just commenting because I believe you're a good presenter.

Can you please post the slides??