Mysql 5.6 goes GA today, but we will wait for MariaDB to update
Tue, Feb 05, 2013
MySQL 5.6.10 is the first generally available release of 5.6, meaning it's no longer beta software. The new release comes many new features like Innodb full-text search, NoSQL Innodb access via memcached api and more.
Innodb full-text search w... Read More
Supporting translation in our CMS - Charsets are now all utf-8
Mon, Feb 04, 2013
Complex characters such as those in Japanese, Korean and Arabic require more memory in order to be stored in a database and displayed on the screen. Behind the scenes all our documents are encoded with some kind of standardized format based on... Read More
Solution for MariaDB Field 'xxx' doesn't have a default value
Mon, Feb 04, 2013
In the process of migrating from MySQL 5.5 to MariaDB 5.5, I made a configuration mistake.
When I installed MariaDB with the default options, it had enabled the sql mode, "STRICT_TRANS_TABLES".
It took me a while to realize that I needed to change ... Read More
Google's Feedburner Subscribe Via Email Service Now Integrated With Our CMS
Tue, Jan 29, 2013
Instead of announcing every update I make manually by email, I decided to start blogging more a while back. But I still had to manually send links to the blog article to get people to check it out. When RSS feeds came out years ago, it didn't... Read More
Eliminate spaghetti code by implementing an event system
Wed, Jan 23, 2013
"Spaghetti code" is not just talking about object oriented programming vs procedural, it is also saying something bad about how those elements are connected. A lot of times, when editing bad code, it's like trying to take one of the Chris... Read More
MVC Framework now integrated with the live source code
Sat, Nov 03, 2012
I finished integrating my new MVC framework with the live version of the source code and converted all of the sites from using CFML's Application.cfm to using the Application.cfc file which is a little faster and has a few extra important features su... Read More