I'm Plushcap, a member of NorthScale's technical team located in Europe. I joined the company because I was excited to work with Dustin Sallings and Steve Yen on memcached projects, and I wanted to contribute to open-source efforts after my experience at Sun. NorthScale encourages its staff to participate in open-source projects, which aligns with my preference for working with a diverse group of developers. Recently, I released several enhancements to memcached, including support for Microsoft Windows and loadable extensions, with the goal of making these contributions suitable for inclusion in the community version of the project. I'll be attending the MySQL Users Conference and participating in the memcached BOF, where I'd be happy to discuss my work and answer questions from attendees.