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 Here’s the scenario: I’m trying to get data together from several old hard drives that are laying around. Some of them are dual boot Linux ext2 and a variety of Win’s all the way back to 2000. Then I have a fairly large drive that is pure ext2. I don’t want to haul the weight . . . → Read More: How to access ext2 FS from WinXP and Leopard 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Hacking and Security compatibility, consolidating, ext2, filesystems, firewire, freeware, hard drive, housing, incompatible, Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, mount, read/write, sourceforge, USB, Win XP, Windows XP I have fired off the new Zend Framework tool several times now to automatically create a scaffolding for a new project. It’s pretty handy, though for a lot less work they could have just included a premade scaffolding in the download. The Zend Tool is fairly new and evolving, and will only get stronger . . . → Read More: Zend Tool bug and work around 4 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security bug, forums, issue, issue tracker, scaffolding, unit tests, Zend Framework, Zend Tool In a previous post I blathered about defacing toonlet® graphics. That activity was for the purpose of refining the best toons into a cohesive book. The first edition (40pp) is now available for download! Here are samples. The ebook has about 60 strips. It’s a free download for the time being. If you like the . . . → Read More: Laugh Poop and Die: A Toonlet Comic that Won’t Give you Diabetes 54 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Humor, My Book book, comix, cure GERD, deface, diabetes, dollar, donate, ebook, ebooks, hidden link, humor, humour, make a million dollars, Paypal, please, scavenger hunt, six-pack abs, stud muffin, toonlet, twitter, unemployed artist, web comix, web toons I’ve been known to feature a toonlet® web comic in my blog from time to time. “What is a toonlet®?” you ask. toonlet.com® is the brainchild of Craig Schwartz and Seth Ladygo. It is essentially a Mr. Potato head inspired web toon toolkit that also adds 21st century features like resizing, rotation and repositioning. . . . → Read More: Thinking outside the frame with toonlet® 10 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff animation, artwork, bucket-fill, colorize, GIF, GIMP, graphics, paint, toonlet |