MySQL 5.1 is almost ready for prime time, but in the meantime some brave users have already started putting it to work in production environment. MySQL wants to hear from these intrepid souls. The MySQL 5.1 use Case competition is under way. We want feedback from users who have found a practical usage for 5.1 features, and also from the ones who have met usability challenges.

Two articles have already been published from the competition submissions. One showing a popular soccer team using MySQL 5.1 and one proposing a creative way of managing large storage. More articles will come with your feedback

If you are using MySQL 5.1 in production, please let us know!

Japan now has a GlassFish User Group: • Japanese GlassFish User Group Homepage - http://glassfish.jp/ Of course, there's also the Japanese Aquarium

A reminder from Harpreet and Ludo that tomorrow, Tue, April 17th (2007) is the GlassFish Users Group meeting in Mountain View, at the Googleplex. The meeting will be at Tunis Conference Room, (Bldg. 43). Full details here; you can also check the previous announcement, and the official announcements ([1], [2]).

We live in a very diverse world and there is a lot of non-english content and non-english speaker developers, administrators and users. The localization requirements may vary depending on the target audience; for some it may be a hard requirement, for others could be useful, for some redundant. So, two questions...

On the developer side James has started an experiment in Community translation experiment for Java SE. I encourage you to consider contributing there and, should we do the same for Java EE? And, since I have your attention, one of the ideas with the GlassFish Wiki was to localize some (not all) of it. Do you think that will be useful? Want to volunteer? See my earlier blog.

BTW, I tried to get some good links about the use of non-english languages in the internet and I could not find a particulary good link. If you have one, please share it with us.