Canon 40D Arrived
Finally I got my own DSLR camera. It’s the new Canon 40D. More photos are about to come. Brace for impact!
Category Archives: digital
Migrate from MySQL 4.0 to MySQL 5.0
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 […]
Ruby faster than Python and Perl!
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 […]
Symbols in Ruby – Short Explanation?
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 […]
Reading man pages in Preview.app
This is a neat little command line to open man pages in Preview.app: man -t bash | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app In fact its converting it to a PDF file. I just tried it and its a lot better to read and search than in the Terminal.app. Found on bitfever.de