Category Archives: General

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

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?