Introducing Myself

Greetings guys and gals, my name is Darren Cassar a Maltese engineer with a passion for technology and systems engineering. After graduating in 2005 with a B.Eng(Hons) from the University of Malta, specialising in computer and communications, I worked at Vodafone Malta Ltd as a systems engineer for 365 days :) after which I moved to Ixaris Systems Malta Ltd, a company providing a service ENTROPAY (online payment system) used throughout the world. My roles shifted from systems engineering in the IT department for 11months to database administration in the operations department since June 2006.

MySQL: a job, a life, I work MySQL, read MySQL, eat MySQL, sleep .... nah fuck MySQL during sleep :). The reason why I decided to start this BLOG (my second one) is that I would like to share my DBA experiences at work as well as during play (yeah right) which include, setup and configuration, performance tuning and debugging, profiling, replication and hopefully soon enough, CLUSTERING.

I am also a keen but junior unix like OS user including and preferring Solaris10 and Suse 10.3 platforms.

Saying something about my personal life, well, I'm a semi professional photographer (www.photomalta.com is my domain), a son to two great parents, a brother to two older pest brothers (both engineers too) and an uncle to two angels Hayden and Matthew (engineers to be hopefully hehe) :).