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 ...
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Today I had my toothpaste confiscated from the airline security people as I went through. They said my toothpaste tube was too big. I pointed out that it was 90% empty, and only a few CCs of product remained in this flattened tube, but they were convinced that this dangerous ...
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
An interesting byproduct of a workaround I recently did to temporarily patch a buggy issue with downloading my email has resulted in a dramatic decrease in volume for spam coming in to my email account, and I like it.
I've been a big fan of SpamSieve to filter out 99% of ...
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
There is a new scam going around that targets music teachers. The assholes trawl Craigslist and other sites looking for independent private music teachers to rip off. Basically they pretend to be sending a child from another country to the your location to study, vacation or whatever, and they want ...
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
I've been here the past couple of days at the Zend PHP conference in Burlingame. Quite a good show all around so far. This is the first event of a planned annual series, and from what I hear the attendance has greatly exceeded expectations. Looking forward to many more of ...
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