Archive for June, 2006

How to log SQL queries (again)

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Same task as before, different database. I have been doing some development over the last few days with Rails and MySQL. To cut a long story short I wanted to have a look at what queries were being sent to the database. This post describes one way of turning on logging for MySQL. I did […]

Google Office

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

In a previous post I mentioned that after Google’s purchase of Writely all they needed now was a spreadsheet program and something for creating presentations before we see an online competitor to Microsoft’s desktop-bound Office product. Well here’s the spreadsheet. I’m off to the bookies to put a bet on the presentation software appearing in […]

Distributed columns

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

I have just finished reading an article about the limits of Google’s limitless business model. I got to the bottom of the first page and clicked on “Please continue reading part two”. Suddenly I was taken to a different site - there appeared to be continuity with what I had just read so I continued […]