Chuck Hagenbuch

Absolute highlight of the MySQL conference: being congratulated by Monty Widenius for creative use of merge tables, and receiving a batch of good feedback on our keynote (video).

I'm really excited to be participating in the closing keynote of this year's MySQL conference. We'll be talking about our experiences behind the scenes of the Obama compaign. For me and my coworker Leigh Heyman, that means the software and hardware systems behind my.barackobama.com, which took in over $500 million in contributions and sent over 1.3 billion emails.

I also recently spoke with another coworker, Josh King, at the BostonPHP user's group about the various communications systems we ran - Josh about the Neighbor-to-Neighbor tool for canvassing, and myself about email. There are some comments and photos on the meetup page, and a podcast recording on the BostonPHP website.