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MySQL backup as separate sql files with rotation

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

A few days ago I accidentally dropped a MySQL database from my home development server. While my computer does automatically run a daily backup using:

mysqldump –all-databases

It does mean that all my databases are backed up into one massive single file; so it makes it a little bit tricky to pull out the database I was [...]

Apple’s App Store meets 1984

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

In 1948 just after World War II George Orwell wrote a novel called 1984 about how Britain might have looked if a communism regime had come in to power. An excellent read if you haven’t read it already.
In 1984 Apple made a commercial:

Continuing their promotional campaign Apple in 1997 started to use the slogan: “Think [...]

iPhone and HTML5 Experimentations

Monday, September 21st, 2009

After my trusty mobile phone which I have had for the last 4 years gave up the go on me I decided to replace it with a shiny iPhone.
For the most part its been a very good experience, however there where a few things that my old phone did slightly better like running multiple applications [...]

Online Backup

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Backing up data is normally something most people usually neglect (unless your on a Mac), and even if you do backup what happens if you get your stuff stolen or lost by hard drive failure or worst case scenario fire?
Enter the cloud, online backup is nothing new the only difference these days is you normally [...]

Setup up Subversion (SVN) for multiple users, with permissions

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

SVN is a useful application allows you to keep track of revisions/changes made to files (mainly for web development or even writers!) and keep projects up to date easily (which is what we use at work). It seems to be allot harder to setup on a shared web host.
So after much playing around with it [...]

iTunes External Drive Detection

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

If your like me and have far too much music you will have probably transferred it all to an external hard drive, which is great as it frees up some space on your computer, but not so great if you forget to turn it on and you start up iTunes.
iTunes has the habit of marking [...]

Norway

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

After sorting though some 300 photos from last week, 25 of them made the grade:

Norway
I took a few panoramas as well, 3 of them came out quite well:

Cross-country skiingĀ  is pretty good fun, but does involve allot of up hilling e.g. climbing a mountain for 2 hours for a 10 minute ski down! Though you [...]