http://www.khankennels.com/blog Lig's accidentally overheard ramblings on PHP and life in general Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:21:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok - I had to install MySQL on my Mac for the first time - using a tar of the binaries none the less. And it has been interesting. These are notes mostly for myself but if others find them helpful - great. instructions I used - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/installing-binary.html to create ... http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/04/21/installing-mysql-on-mac-105/ Yep - I have finally ready for my trip to the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara. MySQL and Oreilly have been incredibly generous in providing us the opportunity to attend their conference, giving us an exhibition booth and a free pass to all the sessions. With out ... http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/04/11/all-ready-for-the-mysql-user-conference/ Just a quick not to let the world know that I have started the mentor listing for testfest. It can be found at http://wiki.php.net/qa/testfest Mentors - if I missed you please send me an email to update it or feel free to add yourself to the wiki. Also ... http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/04/09/testfest-some-updates/ I am pleased and proud to say that come Monday - I will be working for MySQL (*sigh* - Ok Sun). I will be working for a Dream Company of mine - doing a Dream Job. Life does not get better then that. So to everyone who kept telling ... http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/04/03/mysql-here-i-come/ It has been a really long time since I wrote anything - luckily the folks at phparchitect gave me just the push I needed to get back to my writing. Took me a while to get back in the hang of it again - but I did it - ... http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/03/24/back-in-the-saddle-again/ Just found out about the Orlando BarCamp from another member of the JaxPHP UG. I had no idea there was a BarCamp out this way. It will be held on April 5 and 6 at Wall St Plaza. The 5th will be dedicated to Developers and the 6th to ... http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/03/13/barcamporlando/ While talking with Dynom and Davey I learned something really cool today - how to get the declared definition of a column all by itself with MySQL (I used version 5.0.45). Yes there are lots of other ways to get the info - not the least of which is ... http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/03/04/coolness/ I have recently been asked to do some coding in C - a language I haven't looked at (never mind code in) in over 5 years. I don't even remember how the heck to set up the environment anymore. Anyway - got me to thinking how much has ... http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/03/04/time-flies/ Went to the Florida Linux Show today - a 1 day conference held in Jacksonville at the University of North Florida University Center. At only $10 to attend - it is hard to find a reason not to attend something so close and so affordable. Had a good ... http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/02/12/florida-linux-show/ I have to admit to not writing much lately on the blog - mostly because I haven't been doing anything interesting. Visiting family, making new friends, catching up on my personal reading (no tech books - well ok only a few - Mostly High Performance MySQL with a dash ... http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/02/06/on-relaxing/