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I don’t remember having to do this before, but I had compiled MySQL 5.1.34 recently on my dev box (os x) and I saw a warning on a create table statement.

When I get a new Mac, I go through the same steps every time.

I got this error after installing the Mono framework on MacOS X 10.5.6 and trying to set up a new project with eclipse.

One thing that always bothered me about complex desktop applications like Adobe Photoshop or Eclipse, or even Desktop Linux is finding out how to use the more advanced features (or, truthfully, some of the basic features).

collective intelligence is cool till you buy 1 macgyver DVD and amazon WON’T FUCKING STOP RECOMMENDING ME MACGYVER RELATED SHIT

PHP Quick Profiler This looks like a pretty cool tool to get a good idea of what’s going on in your PHP script without having to install tools like XDebug and Webgrind / KCacheGrind.

Not sure what I did, but I found this at the bottom of my chess game on facebook.

Just a quickie - throw this in your apache config if you need error logging for mod_rewrite.

Gen_server is a great way to create simple servers without having to write a lot of code at all.

Peeping into memcached.

It looks like developing using c# and eclipse on the Mac is pretty easy, at least on first glance.

If you’re running into trouble with Mnesia not writing your data to disk, make sure you create the schema BEFORE you start mnesia.

So, recent job switch.

The Mac Mini is now capable of running dual monitors.

Filter queries are applied to a result set after it has generated the search results.

Setting up a solr index isn’t that hard, but I found the documentation to be somewhat hard to find.

I found this gem today.

In our dev environment, we use VirtualDocumentRoot to avoid configuring new environments when we get a new developer.

I hate looking for this….

lsof works under linux and MacOS X and will help you figure out what files are open. lsof | grep ‘mysqld’

I found this pretty amusing… me: i’m terrible w/ cocoa i don’t particularly like objective-c it’s to verbose **matt: ** [me putonSock:blueOne onFoot:rightFoot ignoringHangNail:YES]

Here’s a quickie - make sure every PHP file in your project parses correctly. find .

I’ve tried so many times to use Spaces, and I keep failing.

I’ve been using SVN for several years now, so I’ve been partial to it, and reluctant to switch to another form of source control.

There’s a lot of people who don’t seem to like the genius feature of iTunes.

I hate looking stuff up.

Leex is an erlang version of Lex, a Lexical Analyzer Generator written by Robert Virding.

OK, so I haven’t bought new RAM in years, but still, $61 for 4GB of ram?

I snuck a feature into Answerbag… the ask a question bookmarklet.

In my last post, I covered using guards with Erlang’s ETS select/2 functionality.

Not every time we want to pull data out of an erlang ETS table is it as straightfoward as the previous example.

I hate having to look stuff up to get examples, especially when I have to click on more than the first google link to figure things out.

It’s unfortunate that I’ve reached this point, since I thought quicksilver was a really awesome piece of software.

For better or worse, I’ll be doing c# development for a while.

I have never, ever seen this before.

I haven’t been using vim for very long, but I’ve gotten over the initial learning curve of getting used to the different editing modes.

I ran into an issue just now compiling libjpeg on 64 bit CentOS.

I got an error while compiling Apache today: “.

There’s a weird behavior in Python when dealing with Mutable types such as dictionaries, that when you modify a variable defined as a class attribute, you’re actually modifying a shared dictionary amongst all the classes.

Altering a big table sucks, and to make it worse you have no idea what’s happening or how long it will take.

I was poking around the MySQL Worklog again over the weekend, and found a request for materialized views for MySQL.

I’ll keep it short.

I was cruising the MySQL Forge Worklog when I came across the idea of Time Delayed Replication.

I was curious how many lines of code were in PHPBB 3.

I posted a complaint a while ago about BBEdit complaining about a few things.

I’m not sure how I didn’t see this earlier, but it looks like MySQL 5.1 is coming with a load balancer for replicated servers.

I got this today.

If you do any work with single sign on, you’ll be familiar with the concept of exchanging tokens and validating against the authentication server using that token.

This is exactly what I look for when I’m trying to find a tutorial.

While I’ve known how floating points are stored, I didn’t know if decimal was stored any differently, or if it was more or less accurate.