Archives for: October 2008

Speed up ORDER BY queries in MySQL

Linux, Fedora, MySQL Send feedback »
One of the reasons MySQL is popping up in top or is eating up to much processor time... or nowdays is eating up too many processors are ORDER BY clauses. Many ORDER BY clauses will translate in temporary tables stored to disk. If you are using GROUP BY c… more »

Error coding strategy

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Having to deal with a medium application and up to a huge application will increase your need for error coding. I'm convinced that error messages are not enough. For my former job I've wrote an error coding strategy. The error code should be simple en… more »

cjpeg - Targa (tga) to JPEG (jpg) - simpler, faster but not dirty - the quality is excellent !

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If you ever need to transform to JPEG from Targa images (tga) - produced by some very popular games as screen shots - and you don't want to use the all mighty ImageMagick - which on my machine can process around 150 formats - you can try a simpler approa… more »

The "www." prefix is dead.... or almost !

W3C, Diverse Send feedback »
I do agree with Jeremy that "People don't get DNS, domain names" and those that do or try to are annoyed by www. ! I do not know if you entered here by typing e-radical.ro or www.e-radical.ro either way you will get redirected to gabriel.e-radical.ro.… more »

Redirect output to /dev/null... mainly !

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From time to time I need to redirect standard output and also standard error either in a file or nowhere... more »
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