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Month: January 2007

  • MySQL – fields table is not good idea

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    Witold Rugowski
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    Another gotcha. This time with MySQL (4.1). I just have learned that using table named fields is not possible. Why? mysql> CREATE TABLE fields (`id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY); ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right…

  • RSS, Rails and joy of coding

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    Witold Rugowski
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    I’m lucky user of Rails Recipes (from Pragmatic Programmers). Using this book is real pain solver. I have just enabled RSS for Run-N-Share (not deployed yet it on production server) well below 20 minutes. This is why I like Rails and Ruby…

  • H1 – finally

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    Witold Rugowski
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    It took over a year, a lot of efforts, but finally, today I have visited US consulate and I’ve got my visa approved :)) Well the world is small… Company, which sponsor my visa is located in Hoffman Estates, IL. Small Chicago suburbs. Imagine my surprise when consul looking at my papers said: “Hoffman Estates?…

  • Inside biggest passenger plane – A380

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    Witold Rugowski
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    I was inside A380. Well… it is huge! It is hard to believe, that so big thing can fly… Impressive… I’m involved in cooperation with polish company, which was chosen to provide some services for Airbus. I can not give any details (before end of project), but I will write some software for Airbus. I…

  • Wallpapers

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    Witold Rugowski
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    I try sometimes to post my photos as wallpapers, but I’m mere amateur ;-)) If You are looking for decent wallpapers, especially for more than one monitor check http://www.mandolux.com/. Awesome and plenty of them!