Archives for 2006
Very excited - for those who are children of the 80's, surely the return to our screens of that fantastic sci-fi series 'The Day of ...
MySQL's fulltext searching makes use of 'Term Vector Theory', which basically means calculating word distances using three dimensional vectors. Go here for a more thorough ...
One of the features I have missed since starting using Vim as my main source code editor is the ability to navigate a source file ...
An unusual start to work this morning. "One of our Macs is missing" cried a designer from the ecommerce team I work in. And indeed ...
A project I am involved in at the moment requires the ability to search databases for text matches in an intelligent manner from a web ...
I had a couple of problems when running a Perl test script that attempted to connect to a SQL Server DB using the DBD::Sybase library. ...
I must admit that like most programmers, regular expressions trouble me sometimes. One day I shall purchase (and digest) Jeffrey Friedl's superb book Mastering Regular ...
Vim's .vimrc is a config file, the beating heart of the program, and an essential step in getting Vim up and running. Using the .vimrc ...
Cloud Atlas Rating: 3 out of 5 Author: David Mitchell Year: 2005 Category: Fiction Publisher: Sceptre Price: 7.99 ISBN: 0340822783 A interestingly structured book this. It comprises six ...
I recently had the requirement to connect to a SQL Server DB from a Linux environment using Perl. Having run a round a bit to ...
This morning, I am suffering. It is the consequence of having visited Rob Smith's house last night - (his lamb meat ball curries are legendarily ...
I have recently been working a lot with MySQL stored procedures. I tend to write them up first in a text editor - textpad or ...
I have had the opportunity to use PDO to connect to a MySQL DB at work recently. One requirement of the project was to provide ...
I have been using Vim today. No it is not a bathroom cleaning product from Belgium, it is an Improvement on VI, that great institution ...
I have just started investigating the possibilities of using PHP5's 'PHP Data Objects', or PDO, as a way of accessing databases. This has come after ...
Well this is my first post here, and I thought that it would be good to try out the syntax highlighting plugin I have installed.