I nearly burned up my entire afternoon today troubleshooting a few annoying inconveniences with the ADODB database layer, plus the design decisions of MySQL. Here’s what I’ve found out in a few ‘fun’ facts. This post is reasonably heavy on the technical content, so be warned.
You may be tempted to use the MySQL “REPLACE INTO” [...]
Also tagged adodb, database, design, mysql, queryJust checked out the Eclipse SVN site and apparently the issue with dashes in new PHP filenames has been resolved. I upgraded my work copy to the latest nightly build and things seem to be going well. (The October 1st integration build might be better stability-wise, but I’ve had good luck with the nightly builds.)
For [...]
It must be a banner day for Eclipse projects, since the primary IDE I use for both work and personal projects has been released as a 1.0 version at eclipse.org.
The primary download mirror from eclipse.org is fairly slow (I’m pulling about 50-60K/s from my work connection from it, when normally I get much speedier [...]
There’s been a lot of whinging and amateur-lawyering over the past few days (including a massive dupe on Slashdot), about a controversy surrounding an app called TestDriven.NET. As far as I understand the situation, the primary developer is currently in a whine-fest with some people from Microsoft about licensing for a Visual Studio 2005 Express [...]
Also tagged development, eclipse, ibm, microsoft, rimI’ve decided to take a look at my Webalizer statistics for the months of April and May to figure out what people are searching for. It also helps me tailor the content on this ugly green and beige page to what people might be interested in.
If you’ve got a question about something I’ve written, or [...]
I’ve escalated the issue with the ev98.net DNS resolution problem. To reiterate the problem, the community blogging/random video/insult site at ev98.net is currently unavailable for public access – it’s been replaced with some spammy search site that apparently is trying to flog DJ equipment or something else useless.
Things from the administration end seem to be [...]
I’ve finally gotten the chance to deploy the new security-related fixes for WordPress. I’m not a huge fan of any mass-market weblog packages, or for that matter any heavily popularized software for managing a website. In fact, I plan to use a stable version of Ethanol or Aerosol to maintain this site once I get [...]
Also tagged aerosol, development, ethanol, ev98, mysql, phpbb, upgrade, xbmc, xbox, xbox360