Entries posted in April, 2009

The death of MySQL?

Around fifteen months ago, the open source community was very happy to hear that Sun Microsystems had just purchased MySQL, and the worlds most popular database was in very good hands.  More »

A new design

If you’ve been here before, you’ll probably notice a complete change of design. With a greater focus on clarity and essential features, our content now stands out much more, with fewer distractions. We make much better use of whitespace and, apart from content-related images, have almost eliminated all graphics.  More »

Naming procedure line labels

I recently worked on improving a VB6 application, and as part of the task, I decided to “clean up” the way procedures used line labels.  More »

Google, as it was once

The original Google “beta” home page, as of December 1998, and captured by the Wayback Machine snapshot: Click the image above to see the full version.   More »