In my opinion, anyway. Brandon found this gem on Digg, and unfortunately I don’t know which story it was in relation to (working on getting that). Nonetheless, to whomever wrote this, I owe you like $1: "Your grandfather was a pretty sharp guy, but you, on the other hand, are …
Ok so I swore I would not turn my blog into a embedded video haven, but I couldn’t resist… UPDATE: Ok so having the video there, as cool as it was, did, indeed get really old :) Here’s a link to it, instead.
I ran into a very surprising result today in regards to using UPDATE … SET … that I thought interesting enough to share. For those of you who keep up with my blog (I’m not sure why, but thanks :), you know that I have been playing around with using …
So while nothing appears different on the site, I thought I would try my hand at creating some TRIGGERS in place of some application level logic for the site. Specifically, the number of comments on each blog post is actually stored in the main BlogPosts table. That way, there is …
I think few people are fans of the IRS and in fact anyone who is either hasn’t had to pay before or is lying. This year was the first year in some time that Corey and I had to pay on taxes. Kinda sucks. I tried to make sure the …
So today I finished the MySQL DBA II exam and passed, which now makes me (or will make me soon) a certified MySQL 5.0 DBA. Wh00h00! I have to admit, the day started out kinda meh, but it just keeps getting better. Dan got me lunch (thanks Dan!) to celebrate …
I seem to read quite a few people who were not impressed by Apple’s entry into the sub-notebook market with the MacBook Air. It seems, just like with the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD holy wars, that people find random crap to complain about. Some of which I think has merit, but …
Alright so I thought I might throw my $0.02 into the whole fanfare about Sun acquiring MySQL. I think it was a surprising but good move. Sun has a lot to provide, is likely looking to strengthen their platform, and appears to be committed to open source. While it remains …