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A better VNC
I’ve been using VNCViewer from RealVNC under Linux to remote connect to an older machine running windows. Two reasons, I don’t need yet another screen on my desk, and I need windows to adequately test and use the MySQL GUI products, in particular MySQL Workbench.
Read moreImproving Open Source Databases – WordPress
As part of both my UltimateLAMP side project, and my greater involvement with MySQL Workbench, I’ve been wanting to review and document the database schemas of Open Source products. Indeed, as part of discussions with Mike Zinner of MySQL AB at the recent MySQL Users Conference, I suggested an idea used in the Java World, for example by Clover and Agitar, where to promote the usefullness of their respective tools (in this case code coverage), they provide results against Open Source Products.
Read moreGoogle Talk
Google has like many before it such as AOL, Yahoo and Skype created it’s own online chat program, which you can run with a windows program and which is very neatly integrated into Gmail.
Read moreSeaching Google in Klingon or Elmer Fudd
Sometimes I wonder how I get to trivial information. Well in the Wikipedia article Google Hoaxes you will find that the Google search engine is valid in a number of unusual languages including Klingon.
Read moreThe GWT!
New to the AJAX vertical space is the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) released the the Sun Java One Conference last week. AJAX (“Asynchronous Javascript and XML”) isn’t new, infact the underlying requirements within AJAX, the DHTML, DOM manipulation and XMLHttpRequest were available in 1997.
Read moreGoogle Trends
With Google trends you can compare words, and see how they are being used within google searches. You can use it to compare different things. Check it out at http://www.google.com/trends For example, I did a search on MySQL,PostgreSQL,Ingres to compare open source databases.
Read moreMigrating an MyISAM schema to use Referential Integrity
Here are some steps involved. Using the current MySQL defacto engine InnoDB. Of course, Falcon, PBXT and others will enable alternative engines to be used. Convert Table Storage Engine Types
Read moreRestyling a Mediwiki Installation – Lesson 1
Following my implementation of UltimateLAMP , read heaps more at this thread , I undertook to provide customizations of a MediaWiki Installation. Here is the first lesson that you can undertake if you wish to beautify the default MediaWiki Installation.
Read moreGoogleWack
This fad started many years ago, and once I achieved it. Well today, I got the google 1 of 1 result. Here are the rules GoogleWack “Your goal: find that elusive query (two words – no quote marks) with a single, solitary result!
Read moreUltimateLAMP
This product is no longer available. This was created over 6 years ago and software is too out of date. As I discussed earlier in [A picture can tell a thousand words][1], I outlined briefly what the intention of **UltimateLAMP** was for.
Read moreUnbelievable Bureaucratic Incompetence
Some times I’m just disgusted to be involved in the IT Industry, due to the incompetence of others that then reflect poorly on everybody else. In this case at a present client, a new company wide email implementation using Microsoft Outlook as the Email Client and most likely Exchange Server is occuring.
Read moreA picture can tell a thousand words
I’m a keen advocate of MySQL. However, while I use it and promote it within my limited IT circles, I often wonder how MySQL can get better traction and exposure, especially within both the industry sectors and physical locations where I am presently.
Read moreMySQL GUI Products
I’ve started now to actively use more of the MySQL Workbench, MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser and MySQL Migration Toolkit. I am traditionally a very command line person, and it’s important that these skills are never put on the back burner.
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