Tag Archives: mysql

MySQL vs PostgreSQL

Posted on February 24, 2006 by Dominic Mitchell

At work, we’ve just started converting one of our projects to use MySQL instead of the present PostgreSQL. Due to client orders, you understand. Unfortunately, after using PostgreSQL, coming up against MySQL reveals how bizarre, baroque and arbitrary it is. … Continue reading →

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Makeovers

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Dominic Mitchell

I’ve just switched the theme on this blog to Origami, winner of the typo theme contest. Whilst I think it looks good, it feels a bit slow. And I really dislike the Flash technique for replacing the texts of the … Continue reading →

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Blogging Software

Posted on December 19, 2005 by Dominic Mitchell

It started innocently enough, but as usual turned into yak shaving rather quickly. I wanted to try out some graphical editors for posting to my blog. Sounds simple enough. Except that a while back, I chose wordpress-pg. Its a version … Continue reading →

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SiteBar

Posted on September 12, 2005 by Dominic Mitchell

SiteBar looks useful. And it has a firefox extension… But their server software needs MySQL. I like PostgreSQL. Bah. That sounds like work. Thankfully, their database abstraction looks reasonably clean. Oh well, here we go. Update: no, the mysqlisms are … Continue reading →

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wordpress & backslashes

Posted on March 30, 2005 by Dominic Mitchell

One of my pet peeves about wordpress is that because it’s based on PHP and MySQL it doesn’t like backslash characters at all. It just eats them up and screws up your post. But I’ve found a simple answer. Use … Continue reading →

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