Quote of the day
"I wasn’t kissing her, I was just whispering into her mouth."
-Chico Marx
Flash Lite getting real
And now, the Flash Virtual Machine is going mobile... for real! :)
NOKIA SIGNS LICENSING AGREEMENT WITH MACROMEDIA
Series 60 becomes a reference mobile platform for Macromedia Flash technology
Nokia (NYSE:NOK) and Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced a licensing agreement that will integrate Macromedia Flash technology into Series 60 Platform. Series 60 becomes a reference platform for Macromedia’s mobile Flash technology, and Macromedia will implement new versions of its mobile Flash technology on Series 60. Nokia has also agreed to support Flash in its other software platforms.
Paris skyscrapers
I was looking for a picture of the Paris skyline when looking to the west… the ideal one would be a view of the Eiffel tower from the Montparnasse tower… that way you should see the Defense skyscrapers in the background… of course I’m looking for some particular lighting also ;) Anyone got that kind of stuff from his trip to the city of lights? Then please make my day! :))
Anyway, while looking I stumbled across this site: Paris skyscrapers - le site des gratte-ciel parisiens [broken link], which – while not having the best pictures – definitely has some incredible documentation!
But the funniest thing here is that I’m realizing I’ve got this fascination for skyscrapers… and if I recall correctly, this goes back to my childhood… For some time I just thought I fancied working and/or living in those “high places". Well I’ve done this before: I’ve been living on the 24th floor (in Philadelphia) and I’ve had my office on the 33rd (in Paris La Défense).
Yet, the fascination remains… ;)
Or maybe it’s just temporary because of this incredible girl I met on the 56th last week? :D
MySQL features by version breakdown
I could not find anything like this on the net, so I thought I'd make my own chart and share it... ;)
| MySQL version | 3.23.58 +InnoDB |
4.0.22 | 4.1.7 | 5.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | 11-sept-03 | 27-oct-04 | 23-oct-04 | not stable yet |
| Row level locking | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Transactions | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Foreign keys | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| UNION | no | yes | yes | yes |
| Subqueries (derived tables) | no | no | yes | yes |
| Multiple table DELETEs | no | yes | yes | yes |
| Unicode UTF-8 support | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Column level charset support | no | no | yes | yes |
| Timezone handling | no | no | yes | yes |
| Full text indexing (MyISAM only) | no UTF-8 | no UTF-8 | yes | yes |
| Stored procedures | no | no | no | yes |
| Rudimentary triggers | no | no | no | yes |
| Updatatable views | no | no | no | yes |
| Server side cursors | no | no | no | yes |
| Master/slave one way replication | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Replication over SSL | no | no | yes | yes |
| Clustering (not available on Windows) | no | no | yes | yes |
Note: I have not included MySQL 3.23 without InnoDB because that version can do vitually nothing interesting. It's a pure joke. Unfortunately, it is the kind of joke hosting providers like to try on you when they claim they offer you a "DBMS"... yeah right... call it an electronic rollodex, no more :>>
I'm a little bit too lazy for styling this right now, sorry.
If you notice an error, please be so nice and report it. Thanks ;)
Exporting MySQL databases
PhpMyAdmin does a pretty decent job at exporting MySql database with their structure and/or their data to a plain SQL file. One thing bugged me though: it encloses every table/column/whatever name in backquotes like in `addr_city` varchar(50). Who needs this? Are there really people who put spaces, commas, quotes and special chars in their database object names?? |-|
Today, I finally fixed this. You need to open config.inc.php and change this line:
$cfg['Export']['sql_backquotes'] = FALSE;
Life is good! :D
