While looking into setting up a logging framework within our code, I came across an article that discusses logging the FireBug console from within PHP. Coupling this with the PEAR::Log documentation on redirecting non-fatal PHP errors, I now see PHP errors in my FireBug console, rather than in my pages.

The first article also mentions FirePHP, which consists of both a PEAR extension for PHP, and a FireBug extension for your browser. This combination allows for much more structured debugging information to roll up to the browser, but at this point it seems to still be somewhat beta.

While researching the optimum way to design large tables for InnoDB, I found an article entitled How to Exploit MySQL Index Optimizations that provides some good information about the differences between MyISAM and InnoDB index structures, and how to optimize your tables for each.

An older article from the same site provides a bit more information.

Here is a nice summary of how Giuliani’s staff treats reporters they don’t like.

Jason Bermas, reporting for Infowars and America: Freedom to Fascism, confirmed Lepacek had official CNN press credentials for the Republican debate. However, his camera was seized by staff members who shut off the camera, according to Luke Rudkowski, also a freelance Infowars reporter on the scene. He said police physically assaulted both reporters after Rudkowski objected that they were official members of the press and that nothing illegal had taken place.

This is pretty amazing, if you are a vi user.

This is pretty funny.

Here is a nice visual representation of the various different kinds of table joins you can do in SQL.

Getting Joins

I seem to have gone and found myself a job. Surprisingly, this one is local and exciting! I will be doing ops (and inevitably some dev) work for dailystrength.org.

There is a street one block from my house that has a remarkable variety of interesting flowers and plants. I finally got around to taking some pictures of them.

Flora Gallery

This is a timely piece about things recruiters do wrong.

This appears to be a pretty good article about using rsync to backup your data, starting out with simple mirroring and moving into regular daily “snapshots”