I gave a 3 minute “Lightening Talk” on toonlet.com a couple weeks ago at the end of a LUV meeting. I wasn’t sure it was appropriate, because I think of these folks as really brilliant high-powered geek gurus, and toonlet is just a web app that really dumb people can use. It doesn’t even have . . . → Read More: My Toonlet talk at Barcamp Melbourne
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This XKCD comes at just the right time for me. I’m struggling with an issue with the Captcha in Yii Framework. In case you didn’t know, the captcha is that slightly distorted codeword that you type into a computer program to tell it you’re a human being. Bots supposedly can’t read them…. Of course . . . → Read More: Captcha a la XKCD I am currently feeling very conflicted about Zend and everything associated with it. I heard a statement the other night by a guy who was talking about CakePHP that hit the nail on the head. Paraphrasing what he said, “There is nothing wrong with Zend Framework, but you just get this feeling with Zend . . . → Read More: Alternatives to Zend Framework  13 comments - (Comments are closed)  Geek Stuff, Zend Framework  Alternatives, Eclipse, IDE, Leopard, Mac, Microsoft, older versions, opensource, perpetual license, Tiger, Zend, Zend Framework, Zend Studio, Zend Studio 5.2 I’ve been finding lately that my simplest blog posts grow the longest tails. So here is one for all you dojo toolkit users or wannabe’s. I started seeing the following in dojo scripts that I hadn’t seen before, and couldn’t find any specific comments about it. ;(function(d,$){ /* your code here */})(dojo, dojo.query) The . . . → Read More: Dojo toolkit wrapper 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Front End Frameworks, Geek Stuff dojo, dojotoolkit, function syntax, javascript frameworks, JQuery, prototype, semicolon, shorthand Australians have bar camps too. This one won’t be free, but it will be cheap depending on what corporate sponsorship they get. It’s a big sleepover, so you’ll need a sleeping bag. Click the banner to go to their site to sign up: Signups open 12 August. It will be at Urban Camp right . . . → Read More: Bar Camp Melbourne 12-13 Sept 2009 One comment - (Comments are closed) events, Geek Stuff australia, bar camp, geek gathering, info, melbourne, victoria I was investigating the CSV storage engine for mysql, having never used it. I found out, much to my relief, that it’s a relatively new thing — went standard with 5.1, but certainly not in the kits of luddites like me who have to stay four or five versions back because we can’t afford downtime . . . → Read More: Instant Access to 5 million row CSV for MySQL Penguins are not big fans of Flash, that’s for sure. But they are a little out of touch and sometimes need a reality check. This reminds me of the old days when you had to do a little dance to get Linux to show the floppy disk icon on the GUI desktop. All I . . . → Read More: XKCD Nails Linux In a previous post I discussed the stumbling blocks and security concerns that the mysql documentation doesn’t tell you about having a mysql user create csv files on the filesystem. I ran into yet another issue. In order to do what I want with these csv’s, they have to have column headers. I thought . . . → Read More: MySQL CSV’s with column headings — Part 1 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security, SQL cache, CAST, column headers, column heading, CSV, Database Abstraction, dependency injection, describe table, descriptors, FILE permission, length, metadata, MySQL, pear, reflection, system user, truncate, truncation, UNION Don’t you hate it when you know you solved a problem three years ago but you can’t remember what the solution was? I ran into that recently. I was trying to make mysql generate a csv directly from query results. I remembered that you can do it, and I had an example of the correct . . . → Read More: How to make MySQL spit out CSV’s 22 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, SQL CSV, DoS, escapes, FILE privilege, filesystem, INTO OUTFILE, MySQL, mysql system user, mysql user, OUTFILE, permissions, security, vulnerability Remember my Tux mittens that I knitted last winter (which would have been summer if I had been in Australia then?) They are kewl but I don’t often have cause to wear mittens, and they don’t actually fit me on top of that–the assumption of the design was that geeks are MALE with male-sized hands. . . . → Read More: Tux Geekcraft Plarn Bag 13 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, Multimedia bag, four colour, geekcraft, knit, knitting, penguin, penguin pattern, PHP elephant, plarn, plastic bags, purl, Tux |