My talk on Sphinx has been accepted for MySQL User Conference 2010, so we're hitting the conference again! The talk is called Sphinx: Full-text Search in 2010 and I will be covering all the shiny new features that we've been so busy adding lately. The talk is scheduled on Wednesday, April 14th and we'll also try to arrange a BOF session on search in general and Sphinx in particular on Tuesday, 13th.

We are not doing a booth this year, so if you'd like to meet either myself, Andrew Aksyonoff (technical honcho, fingers behind most of the code), or Richard Kelm (sales/customer support honcho, voice behind that 888 number), please do get in touch upfront. I'm staying for a few more days in SF Bay area so we're not really bound to meeting at conference site on the conference dates.

Speaking of which, that also might be a good occasion for a quick onsite consulting visit either in SF Bay or generally in the US. If you have any questions regarding this or would like to schedule a visit please feel free to call 888-333-1345 or email Richard via

And for those who can't attend MySQL UC and hear us talking, we're now blogging. News section on the frontpage isn't a really properly fitting format for everything that can be shared, which is probably one of the reasons it's updated so infrequently. So check out our new Sphinx blog for more things Sphinx: articles, tips, general musings, fun facts, you name it. The blog even comes prefilled.

Last but not least, despite the announcements, we're still mostly busy coding rather talking or blogging most of the time. And those activities tend to offset other ones (like documenting and packaging) lately. Which is, for instance, why real-time updates are in fact already available from public SVN trunk but not in a tarball or RPM form just yet.

So do get in touch. Whether it's attending a talk, following a blog, meeting at the conference, or volunteering to help us with something, we're looking forward to meeting you!