Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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PHP MySQL tips
Interesting PHP MySQL tips. Some comments: 2. Always prepend the table name to the field. E.g. ProductName, SupplierPostCode. This refers to field name aliasing, not to actual field names. He doesn’t suggest that you actually name your fields like that in the table, but only when you select them: SELECT product.name AS product_name instead of […]
How I get my music and movies
I don’t buy music CDs. They’re more expensive than they should be, and the prices never drop, even if the CDs are old. I don’t buy music online either, since it’s usually even more expensive than a CD, it has stupid DRM (Digital Restriction Management) restrictions, and you don’t even get the nice booklet. How […]
Did you know? Common myths
There are some myths out there which are just blatantly false, but that are really pervasive: Water in a sink on one hemisphere does not flow from the sink the other way than on the other hemisphere. There is such a thing as the Coriolis force, which (basically) describes the deflection in the path of […]
Gnome/Metacity keybindings and other customizations
I never really liked Gnome because I couldn’t make Metacity act the way I like it. I’m used to WindowMaker, and it has very configurable keybindings for managing windows. For instance, it’s quite easy to map a keybinding like <Control><Alt>-; to an action that maximizes the currently focussed window horizontally. Another keybinding maximizes the window […]
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