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A clarification of evil
Earlier I wrote in The Sun Download Manager is evil a subsequent generalization, and I wanted to make a clarification. I stand my by title, but not that the entire company is evil.
Read moreWhen technology just works
Today I needed to visit a medical specialist for collection of something. I had to pay $250 as my insurance did not cover. I sent a check as requested however today they had not record of receipt.
Read moreA day with Paul McCullagh – Architect of PBXT and BlobStreaming
Continuing on from my lightning visits with Jan Kneschke and Michael Zinner , today I got to spend a day with Paul McCullagh at his home in Hamburg Germany .
Read moreLimiting your result set, but getting count of all rows
In reviewing some of my notes I thought it was relevant to ensure this small MySQL gem is documented for my history purposes. Historically I’ve seen people do a complex SELECT statement twice, first to get a COUNT(*) and then to retrieve the data, perhaps in a paginated format.
Read moreThe Sun Download Manager is evil
Well, following my rather unimpressed first attempt to download Open Solaris I registered a second account and this time it worked, go figure, there must be a “annoy MySQL ex employees feature there”.
Read moreMac OS/X One Liner – Changing hostname
To change the Hostname under Mac OS/X 10.5 $ sudo scutil --set HostName servername.example.com
Read moreLearning SEO the painful way
Indeed I have a goal of launching a consolidated site of my online presence at ronaldbradford.com at some time soon, and even now I have found I’ve made some SEO 101 mistakes, just in my testing site, and my temporary placeholder.
Read moreOpen Source Database Alternative – Ingres
On several occasions this year I’ve been prompted to mention in conversation Ingres as an alternative Open Source Database. Jonathan Levin in A list of Open-Source Alternatives to Business Applications was the latest example where Ingres was not mentioned and perhaps it should have been.
Read moreThings that piss me off
So I decided to download Open Solaris tonight. Not only do you have to go through the pain of registering to download the free product, ok that’s understandable, you are forced to enter an Organization and a Phone Number, the first is impractical people, not everybody works or want’s to even tell you where they work, but phone number is completely unacceptable.
Read moreJust what are MySQL 9.x features?
Top marks to Jay Pipes for getting the Forge 2.0 finally out after quite some time, as well as in the midst of the MySQL Conference he is organizing. I am worried however about some of the content, as shown in the screenshot below, the opening page lists Worklog tasks/features for versions 6.
Read moreWhat I love about the MySQL Community
The people, plain and simple. I encourage you, if you are not part of the local MySQL community, then why not? Find a local MySQL Meetup group , attend the MySQL Conference , get online to IRC @ freenode#mysql, subscribe to some lists or read the forums .
Read moreMy Motivation for MySQL Camp III proposal
I wanted to follow up my earlier post My Ideas for MySQL Camp III with some of motivations. Luckily, good friend and colleague Jeremy literally took all of 15 mins to respond to my post with “So, I see your vision for the event itself.
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