MySQL App User Privileges

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Here is a basic MySQL tip regarding application users: When building applications that use MySQL, it is a best practice to create a MySQL application user that is dedicated to your app and has privileges to access only the database it is assigned. With the latest version of phpMyAdmin, you can do ...

A Class of Objects

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

I was trying to think of a straightforward explanation of the difference between a class and an object (in OOP terms), and came up with this: Objects are specific instances of classes. When you create a class, you are literally creating "a class of objects." For instance, let us create a ...

Back to School

Monday, March 13th, 2006

This week I took the first steps towards enrolling myself for another masters degree, in computer information systems. My first class starts at the end of this month. I've been eyeing school programs now for years, so this has definitley been a long time coming. Considering my masters is in music ...

The end of the infernal daily links

Monday, February 27th, 2006

It was cool to have del.icio.us post daily links to my blog, but the experiment is over. I didn't like the fact that I had no control over the title, or the fact that it was posting daily and not on some more infrequent basis. My blog obviously was beginning ...

Happy New Year

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

I can't believe it is just hours away from 2006 already. Looking back, 2005 was one of the best. I spent my first year at my dream job, moved into my dream home, practiced a respectable amount of music, completed some study on CSS and PHP, and watched my kids ...