It’s an interesting time in the database world. RDBM systems are once again said to be dead. Actually, people have been calling their demise for quite a while (remember object-based db’s anyone?) While I think these general DB systems still have their uses and will be around for quite a while (they’re “not dead yet”), [...]

Despite the title, this post only describes one scenario: that where you need to skip one (or possibly more) queries on the slave in order for replication to restart. Still, this has come in handy recently. Here’s the money section: Just to go sure, we stop the slave: mysql> STOP SLAVE; Fixing the problem is [...]

Chalk this under the “I need to get out there more”.

Great post describing the process of getting their calculator on the Apple AppStore, and it’s first month there. Would love if they went into more detail about the paper work, but there’s some great information there. [via this Silicon Florist post.]

Certainly worth a try as the vacuum command looks harmless.

If receive an error similar to this when attempting to unzip a file (seems especially apt to occur if the file was zipped on a Windows machine): skipping: data.filext need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1) Then it could have to do with the file being over 4G. Either way, try loading p7zip-full (through yum [...]

This has been bugging me for a while. Don’t know why you’d ever want it to do the default which is to create the new folder at the “base” level of the finder window. Until someone at Apple comes to their senses, here’s a way around it: With enclosing folder highlighted, type command-O. (The Finder [...]

And here’s another one.

Great little flash game meant to help teach programming (especially the visual type used in Lego Mindstorms) to non-programmers. It seems to have a few bugs, but overall much better than having to deal with hardware issues (availability, battery power, environment, etc.) when all you’re trying to do is teach kids how to string commands [...]

I love programming and technology, working for startups and reading Haruki Murakami novels. Didn’t really expect these things to cross, though. But, isn’t that what’s so great about Murakami?