Author Archives: Donncha

Sounds like Bouncers is a play I should see! More info available through Google.

Musings: News aggregator for Linux? – It looks bad alright. Some of the most promising rss readers are just plain broken or incomplete. argh!

Net firms bouncing back – Someone’s making money on the Internet? Finally..

MySQL Control Center – very, very nice MySQL GUI . (via Keith Devens)

Oil for Blood

Placards with “No blood for oil” adorn anti-war protests. That slogan gained respectability last week from the respectable Nelson Mandela.

So why do so few UK schools use Open Source? – A few years ago I tried to get Linux into a local school without success, *humph*

Mark points to the new release of Ad Aware. If you have to use Windows when browsing the net use this software to clean out your system!

Going the whole hog: benchmarking MDB

Well since I just benchmarked dbx, I decided to go the whole hog and benchmark MDB also. This gives us a good idea of the performance of all the modern database abstraction classes available for PHP.

PHPLib has a 40% overhead over using the MySQL api.

The best ”Simpsons” episodes.

iLoggers : the definitive guide to personal irish websites and weblogs