Archive for the 'programming' Category

Unbuffered result sets in MySQL? I must have been last to know…

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Peter Zaitsev over at MySQL Performance Blog has a post entitled PHP Large Result Sets and Summary Tables. This post completely caught me by surprise because (embarrassingly enough) I had no idea you could use unbuffered result sets with mysql and mysqli.
Tags: mysql, mysqli, php

The Four Major Benefits of MySQLi

Friday, June 15th, 2007

A coworker and I were discussing the benefits and drawbacks of mysqli this week. I found it to be very convenient timing considering all the talk on the blogosphere about mysql vs mysqli.
There still seems to be a lot of confusion over the differences between the two extensions despite the length of time that mysqli […]

Select all checkboxes in Javascript dynamically

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

I was looking at a post entitled Top 10 custom JavaScript functions, and I noticed Dustin talking about the various incarnations of getElementByClass(). I know this function has been around forever, but something triggered in my head and I used it to rewrite the ancient javascript checkbox selector I had (which was not class […]

4 (+6) Tips for Being a Good Programmer

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

The Codist has an article today entitled, “So You Want To Become A Programmer“.
The post has 6 solid entries for getting a person imbued in the programming culture, and landing the first job. If these sort of tips interest you, I strongly suggest you give it a read. I humbly offer my own additions to […]