Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
I dodged a very large (metaphorical) bullet yesterday. I’m not in the habit of trying to find bullets to dodge, but this one found me because it turns out I didn’t plan as well as I thought I had. It all started yesterday morning when a client asked me to make some batch updates to … Read more
This is a quick post as much to remind myself the next time I need it as anything about how to start and stop MySQL from a terminal window on OS X. When you install MySQL it defaults to auto starting at login. I like to have control over when the services that I use … Read more
I’ve spent several hours this past weekend working on a project for a client that uses a MySQL database backend. It involves converting thousands of records from XML files exported from the legacy data system. One of the things that’s been bugging me is the process that I have to go to every time I … Read more