After thinking about it a bit more I made some changes to my versioning model. I thought since it was fairly simple I’d add the ability for lightweight data copies, separate meta-data from data, and as a side-effect I simplified some of the queries and probably made them more efficient to boot. With a hangover [...]
Category Archives: General
DB Item Versioning
June 12, 2008 – 8:28 am
I’ve been consumed by thinking about database versioning. Why I wonder? What a silly thing to be consumed about. Is there just nothing to watch on TV? Hmm, no there isn’t. Still – I’m starting to get a bit sick of it … but before I drop it never to return I thought id’ better [...]
a long wet weekend
June 11, 2008 – 1:29 am
Well it wasn’t that wet, but it was close enough and it was cold and dreary. I spent an awful lot of the weekend playing with an idea I had last week. Another piece of software to run a blog/wiki/etc – i.e. a ‘cms’. I don’t really need one, and the world doesn’t need another [...]
gaming the system
June 10, 2008 – 3:11 am
I’m sure it isn’t just me that has noticed Google isn’t really as useful as it used to be any more. First there were the empty ‘wrapper’ sites that got onto the adwords box – you know, the ones that seemed to have ‘all about foo’ for every ‘foo’ search, but when you clicked on [...]
`fedora’ responses
June 3, 2008 – 3:11 am
Well nobody seems to comment on ‘good stories’ – maybe I should rant more often? Anyway, it seems I have a reputation in the GNOME world as being an arsehole, so why not. Threat’s about employers reading the blog? Yeah nice one. I realise I was going to offend the author of packagekit – but [...]
comments
June 2, 2008 – 1:07 am
Didn’t notice the comment approval thing in this CMS … so I just approved all the comments. BTW i’ve been assured tomboy wasn’t political. I guess it was made using some other decision process I don’t understand. Update I unapproved the SPAM. I guess I might have to tone things down a bit – from [...]
fedora
June 1, 2008 – 11:35 pm
I gave Fedora another go last night. No, not on the old laptop I used to develop Evolution on, but a desktop machine I rarely use (it has a dvd burner) – it has enough memory this time. A few quirks. The installation was nice – a limited number of questions to begin with, then [...]
debian madness
May 29, 2008 – 3:15 am
Sigh. It’s just about the last straw for me and debian-based systems. I wanted to read about the texinfo format, so naturally I ran ‘info texinfo’, and all I got was a man page which told me to run ‘info texinfo’ to get the full documentation. Oh funny – GNU is full of recursive jokes [...]
proprietary file formats
May 26, 2008 – 8:06 am
My house mate wanted to edit her CV, but of course it is in microsoft’s shitty binary format. Loading it into open office has about as many formatting issues as it did the last time I tried something similar years ago … maybe open office devs aren’t focusing on those kind of things (i thought [...]
bash crash dash
May 23, 2008 – 1:40 am
Had a strange episode on my laptop last night. Not sure if it’s the update I ran a few hours before, or flakey hardware, but all of a sudden I couldn’t start any new shells, and the cpu was locked so hard the machine turned into a hair dryer (which is why I wanted to [...]
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