Now that the elections are over, the old vote topic didn’t have as much weight, so I thought I would change things back around to MySQL. Namely, what’s your favorite feature? As for the old topic, things were about what I expected: Who are you voting for this November? Obama …
Until now, I have always have a fantastic experience with Amazon. They aren’t the only online store I use, but certainly one I use frequently. Last week, I ordered a 62mm circular polarizer from Amazon. I was pretty excited since I haven’t had much experience with one and they had …
While it took some time to get things sorta out with building MySQL 5.1 with the right parameters to get partitioning support working, I finally was able to get a working install and had some time to play around with this new intriguing MySQL 5.1 feature hands on. The results …
I found this on Digg and couldn’t resist but to post it. Using the Lego Mindstorm kit, some dude(s) built a Safe out of LEGOs! It even has motion sensors and an auto-locking door. Pretty sweet!
So even before the economy went to crap, and the US government decided to throw tons of taxpayer dollars at it (with talks of ANOTHER one, this time for US carmakers who had their head up their ass that they couldn’t see the obvious), I was interested in getting more …
There aren’t many places I can think of (two, in fact) where having some dude randomly throws you over his shoulder and stomps around the office is considered an ok practice. Damnit my job is awesome!
It took me a bit longer than I anticipated (mostly due to working on other things), but finally restored the search functionality. This time around, I am using Sphinx as the fulltext engine. Though MySQL’s implementation of fulltext has quite a few benefits, the major downsides are that it tends …
This weekend was the first weekend in a long time where we basically did nothing but watch movies. Actually, that’s not completely true. We did spend Saturday out in Leon Valley for another craft fair for our candle business. But apart from that, it was movies. Things got kicked off …