I just tried to migrate an old MySQL 4.0 installation to MySQL 5.0. Most of the dumps worked smooth but there was a MediaWiki dump which raised the following error: ERROR 1071 (42000) at line 66: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes On this page is described what the error […]
Finally! Read the first extensive preview here: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0708/07082010canoneos40d.asp Hope they post a review pretty soon as well.
When Pavel microbenchmarked every language he came across it turned out as expected, Ruby was the slowest language in all three micro tests. It was really embarrassing. I was curious if this was about to change in future versions of Ruby so I checked out the current Ruby 1.9 version from their svn repository svn […]
When I started learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails I was introduced to the concept of symbols. You are using a lot of symbols in Rails and it feels somewhat natural after a while but when you try to explain newbies what these symbols are actually good for, it is really hard to describe. It […]
Vor ein paar Jahren, als man Bündnis ’90 / Die Grünen noch ernstnehmen konnte war die Abschaltung von AKW’s noch ein Nischenwunsch. Heute schreibt sich die SPD dieses Ziel auf die Flagge. Wenn man diese Politiker und deren Versprechen doch nur ernstnehmen könnte. Passend zum Thema auch ein schönes Fundstück bei Fefe (omfg! ich verlinke […]