I was messing with some more sophisticated Drupal modules, today, on my Mac. Usually, I try to have minimalistic configuration of PHP on my computer to make sure whatever i write is fairly portable. The PHP4 installation that comes with OS X Tiger falls under such classification. So I had the default. But I had...

This appeared on my Google home-page this morning, when i tried to open it in IE: “Google recommends upgrading to the new, safer Firefox 2.0” Cheers, Google! Not bad, not bad, at all :)

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Let\’s consider a relatively typical scenario: MySQL with clustering, Master instance and Slave instance. The master processes day-to-day operations and Slave is in standby to kick-in if something happens to the master. Let\’s now imagine a stormy, cold Monday that Master decided to die on. Sysadmin quickly re-configures slave to kick-in as Master. Another sysadmin...

In almost any GUI framework (and hence accompanying visual IDE) you will most certainly find a set of visual components that work with an RDBMS. Furthermore, most “regular” components (like edit-field or listbox) have the ability to bind to the database fields, as well. I think such components are referred to as “data-bound” components. It...

I finally got to install the new 5.0 beta1 of Drupal, today. I have not played with it enough to get a full impression but there are several nice things that strike immediately: Smart and nice, web-based installation script. New, beautiful, highly ergonomic and very clean, amazingly appealing default theme - Themetastic. AND IT IS...

You should watch it to the end, even if you are an iPod fan :)\

I was never Dixie Chick\’s fan because I am not fan of Country music, but I AM HUGE FAN OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH, so after what happened to Dixie Chicks and after even the promo trailer for a documentary about it was banned from several TV networks, I am going and buying their albums -...

I can not help the feeling of tremendous similarity between Cubism (as in art) and the Web 2.0 culture. Apart from the similarity in the aesthetics of the visual presentation (main principles being: simplicity and clarity), the two have a lot in common conceptually, as well. Wikipedia defines cubism as: “In cubist artworks, objects are...

Democrats won both House and Senate. This is a very nice day and I am very happy with the outcome of the elections. Not because I believe there is huge difference between the parties but because I believe consolidation of power within one party (which was the case up to now) is BAD. I also...

Although you can\‘t see a cursor when you click on text in Safari, it seems that one might be there. If you click on a position in a line of text in Safari, and then Shift-click somewhere else in the page\’s text, it will select all of the text from the first place you clicked...

Just installed latest iTunes update and my interface became German all of the sudden WTF? :(

I was debugging a piece of code today and stumbled upon a non-trivial problem, that IMHO is worth a post about. Let’s take a “simple” example where you want to find records in one table that are not present in another table. “Present” or “Non-present” is determined by comparision against a single column, in both...

The two are, probably, the most talked-about Web 2.0 wannabes. They have, obviously, been very lucrative for the respective creators, too - considering how much money they got for them. But, seriously - will they really make it? Are their business models valid? Or will they continue to suck out the profits off the generous...

“God is so clear, so close, so obvious and so simple - when you see God, you do not realize it is God. That’s why people do not believe in God. If God was somewhere else, far away, separate and high above, if God was not inside us - everybody would believe in God.” -...