I've been studying recently for the MySQL certification test and have discovered a few tricks along the way. One of my favorites is the combination of using pager and vertical output. To set your pager to use less: mysql> pager less PAGER set to less Now when you perform a select which returns more rows than rows on your screen, the pager will...

Weird thing happened today... I was working in MySQL and accidentally hit Escape followed by the character u and it jumped me to the next word (it really uppercases the word but in my case the word was already uppercased so I didn't notice the effect). So I started playing with other escape sequences to see what they do and here's what I found...

Weird thing happened today... I was working in MySQL and accidentally hit Escape followed by the character u and it jumped me to the next word (it really uppercases the word but in my case the word was already uppercased so I didn't notice the effect). So I started playing with other escape sequences to see what they do and here's what I found...

Lately I've been using the 'fm' Python script I found a while ago quite a bit. It can come in really handy when your looking at program names that don't suggest what they do. I recently compiled and installed KDE 3.2 via konstruct. In the package is a directory called 'apps' with various other apps I could compile. A few in there I wasn't sure...

Lately I've been using the 'fm' Python script I found a while ago quite a bit. It can come in really handy when your looking at program names that don't suggest what they do. I recently compiled and installed KDE 3.2 via konstruct. In the package is a directory called 'apps' with various other apps I could compile. A few in there I wasn't sure...

I've been studying recently for the MySQL certification test and have discovered a few tricks along the way. One of my favorites is the combination of using pager and vertical output. To set your pager to use less: mysql> pager less PAGER set to less Now when you perform a select which returns more rows than rows on your screen, the pager will...

Installed PyBloxsom to replace my Movable Type installation. I like this weblog tool because it's more simple and I can edit posts in Vim. I'm also having fun hacking it -- good for my Python learning.

Installed PyBloxsom to replace my Movable Type installation. I like this weblog tool because it's more simple and I can edit posts in Vim. I'm also having fun hacking it -- good for my Python learning.

Latest thought... The goal: To be able to distribute PHP based applications on CD with the ability to access them without a network connection, and without installing Apache (or other) web server. The idea: Take a browser engine (Gecko, KHTML, Trident (IE)) and make a simple browser, but also compile in a PHP engine. When you load a page on your...

Latest thought... The goal: To be able to distribute PHP based applications on CD with the ability to access them without a network connection, and without installing Apache (or other) web server. The idea: Take a browser engine (Gecko, KHTML, Trident (IE)) and make a simple browser, but also compile in a PHP engine. When you load a page on your...

I've been slacking on getting out more newbie Python articles but I have a few ideas that I have some code in the works for. The Oregon rain is approaching so I'll likely have more inside time to write some...

I've been slacking on getting out more newbie Python articles but I have a few ideas that I have some code in the works for. The Oregon rain is approaching so I'll likely have more inside time to write some...

Just a few bits I've been reading up on... Hans Nowak has written 2 blogs on using self in Python: The importance of being selfish and The importance of being selfish, part 2. Good stuff for a beginner to think...

Soon after Mozilla Firebird / Phoenix 0.6 was released, I found the Unix build instructions and started building my own Firebird builds with XFT enabled and using the GTK2 UI. The resulting browser is a very nice looking one with...

I used to enjoy cryptograms a lot and wanted to generate some on my own. I originally wrote a script to do this in Perl. While learning Python, I rewrote it and learned a few things about the string library...