MySQL Data Compare: The Manual that Time Forgot
MySQL Data Compare can both compare the data in MYSQL databases and also synchronise them. It is handy for a number of tasks for which MySQL has no built-in tools. Although it is intuitive to use and has online help, there has never been a manual; until now! In the...
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 1930 - ...) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave".[1] Like his New Wave contemporaries, Godard criticized mainstream French...
Powers of Ten™ (1977)
One of my favorite classics ... Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times...
Building uniqueness
Looking back over his long career, architect Moshe Safdie delves into four of his design projects and explains how he labored to make each one truly unique for its site and its users. Moshe Safdie's buildings -- from grand libraries to intimate apartment complexes --...
Your elusive creative genius
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk. The author of 'Eat,...
Barber – Piano sonata – Horowitz
This is as much as I can imagine is possible ... from any aspect : composition, interpretation, technique ... We can pack up and leave ... or drink champagne ... A definite must listen to ! >> Play Video
An Introduction To MySQL Storage Engines
MySQL provides support for thirteen different storage engines which act as varying table type handlers. Most people who use MySQL on a regular basis already know about the two most common storage engines, MyISAM and InnoDB. Most of the time, the default storage engine...
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th...
Funny
A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, "I'm sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed...
Vladimir Horowitz
There are no words … He probably got closest to he meaning of music ever … even closer than the composer – how bizarre is that ? Even though he is dead – Vladimir lives – he is immortal ! Like Bird.
A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter
Volunteer firefighter Mark Bezos tells a story of an act of heroism that didn't go quite as expected -- but that taught him a big lesson: Don't wait to be a hero. Mark Bezos works at Robin Hood, a poverty-fighting charity in New York City, and the assistant captain of...
UML
Most books about UML describe it almost in its entirety. Inevitably you’re left with only a superficial knowledge of the range of UML elements, without a deep and intuitive understanding of how to apply UML as a whole to real world design problems. This book doesn’t...
Designing for simplicity
The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics. John Maeda is the president of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he is dedicated to linking design...
Is religion good or bad?
You get the best when you watch it to the very end ! Plenty of good things are done in the name of religion, and plenty of bad things too. But what is religion, exactly — is it good or bad, in and of itself? Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah offers a generous,...
Why truly innovative science demands a leap into the unknown
While studying for his Ph.D in physics, Uri Alon thought he was a failure because all his research paths led to dead ends. But, with the help of improv theater, he came to realize that there could be joy in getting lost. A call for scientists to stop thinking of...
The interspecies internet? An idea in progress
Apes, dolphins and elephants are animals with remarkable communication skills. Could the internet be expanded to include sentient species like them? A new and developing idea from a panel of four great thinkers -- dolphin researcher Diana Reiss, musician Peter...
Logic Quotes …
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. Lewis Carroll Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! E. M. Forster...
The ETL from Hell – Diagnosing Batch System Performance Issues
by Nigel Rivett Too often, the batch systems that underlie a lot of database processing just grow without conscious design. When runs start to extend beyond their allotted time, and tuning no longer solves the problem, it is often discovered that batches are run in...
Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
Watch this TED Talk from David Epstein. When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we...
Peter Ustinov
What a guy ! Would have loved to cook for him my favourite dish … Avocado Mango Prawn Spicy Salad on slices of grilled pineapple with cinnamon sugar …