I never thought I would see the day. Mysql 5 has gone gamma.
September 2005 Archives
I've been using XML::Simple for a while. I have always thought it didn't scale well but I didn't know what to move to. This might be it.
KirbyBase is a simple, pure-Ruby, flat-file database management system. This seems pretty slick. I wonder if there is something like this for perl?
Using good programming practices is hard, even for micro$oft.
Here is an artice that shows how open source software is used to help people at a shelter.
This article is a pretty good rails tutorial.
From the article:
... The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has posted on its web site its final decision, namely to use only formats that conform to the Open Document format for office productivity applications ...
Here is a post from a guy who moved from .Net to Ruby On Rails.
A programmer who hasn’t been exposed to all four
of the imperative, functional, objective, and logical
programming styles has one or more conceptual
blindspots. It’s like knowing how to boil but not fry.
Programming is not a skill one develops in five
easy lessons.
Perl.com has posted Larry's The State of the Onion 9. I just hope I can understand it.
More articles on continuations.
This howto we will get fastCGI running with a stock FC4 apache2.
From reading, I know continuations will be added in perl6 and are in ruby and python, but I really didn't understand them. Like closures they are a simple idea but very powerful. Here is an post that explains continuations quite well.
This is an article that compares the speed of mysql to postgresql. And it gives reason why postgresql appears to be slower than mysql for inserts.
Here is a great post about the usefulness of closures.
I've been looking at postgresql for a little while now. One thing that I've been trying to understand is Tsearch2. This site seems to be a good walk through and resource for other Tsearch2 info.
After 3 years of my own blog software, I have decided to use Typo as my web site. I also my refocused my blog to programming topics that I find interesting. I’m sure some personal news will be posted.
