In a few hours, I’ll hop a plane to Santa Clara for the 2006 MySQL Users
Conference.  There will be many great MySQL people so I’m sure there will
be excellent blog coverage the entire week.  I’ll try to post a few
thoughts myself.

Oh, and in case anyone missed it, the Visual Express products are now free
permanently.  On Windows, I expect Visual C++ Express to be the preferred
“free” tool for building MySQL.  As of right now, we build MySQL on Windows
using Visual Studio 2003.