Author Archives: Donncha

Clamporama – via Gerry Ryan’s show on 2FM.

Clamp-o-Rama is a fun flash based game. The objective is simple… don’t get clamped. There are six levels with new characters appearing throughout the game. Get to the final level to take on ‘Brutus’.

MySQL and PostgreSQL Compared – “both have their uses.”

boards.ie/vbulletin – best o.s. for gaming?

Kansas Department of Revenue – Personal Tax Types – Drug Tax Stamp

The fact that dealing marijuana and controlled substances is illegal does not exempt it from taxation. Therefore drug dealers are required by law to purchase drug tax stamps.

BBC NEWS | Health | Shaving habits linked to stroke risk – a guy on the radio yesterday basically said that increased levels of testoserone may lead to early death in men, but this study would suggest the opposite. (via bottomquark)

Jeremy’s MySQL Stuff – Jeremy linked to it today, must take a look later.

Benchmarking dbx, preliminary results – it’s slightly faster than ADOdb if you configure it in a certain way. I wonder should we look at another db layer at work, we’re using the phplib wrapper but maybe it’s time to rethink that. Then again, there’s lots of legacy code built on top of that library.

Cork LUG – Gnome 2.2 released! – with links to screenshots and /. discussion. Hopefully I can add links to apt-get RPMs later.

WebKreator – Web GUI with PHP using Tica:TK