by Peter Connolly | Oct 8, 2011 | technology
Yes, I admit it. On the day Steve Jobs died, I cried. I didn’t know Steve Jobs. I never received an email from him signed ‘Sent from my iPad’. He never swore at me, or sent me chocolates. I just didn’t know the man. Did Steve Jobs change my...
by Peter Connolly | Sep 20, 2011 | technology
If you don’t understand the title of this post, it’s probably not of relevance to you! In August 2011, a vulnerability was discovered in Apache which would allow a DoS attack to succeed. Full details here (Summary: It’s bad. Really bad.) We’re...
by Peter Connolly | Aug 10, 2011 | MySQL
A short one just to remind me, more than anything else. Log into MySQL with the command mysql -uroot -p To see all existing databases, use show databases; To create a new database, where xxxx is the name of the database you want to create create database xxxx; To add...
by Peter Connolly | Aug 5, 2011 | slideshow, technology
How / Where and When should I buy a computer? How much should I pay? Frequently asked questions – certainly for us. When I started my Computer Science degree in 1984, one of our lecturers told us (even then!) that we’d be asked this question a lot. It...
by Peter Connolly | Jul 14, 2011 | Ruby on Rails
ThinkingSphinx gives Ruby-on-Rails developers the power of a full-text search engine, with only one downside; it’s a full-text search engine. Recently I had to develop an Advanced Search facility for a site which required me to locate content within certain...
