Category Archives: Tech

A while back I wrote my original script to tweet event reminders from Google Calendar and it’s been through a couple of iterations since and been broken for a while. Well finally I got round to update it to use … Continue reading →

Yes I know it’s now the 2nd December so this is a day late, but here’s a list of the online advent calendars I’ve seen so far (and I’ll probably keep adding to it!) 24 Ways — Web development tutorial every … Continue reading →

For a while I’ve been turning off iptables to let my secondary machine connect as synergy client to let me use one keyboard and mouse across both machines.  Finally today I decided to set up the rules properly to do … Continue reading →

Disable anything that will write to the database Update the my.cnf files for all servers to support circular replication, by adding log-slave-updates and ensuring you have unique server ids and the auto increment values are suitable. Then restart mysql to pick … Continue reading →

For a while I’ve been following the updates on a new plugin for WordPress — Artsy Editor which gives you a completely clean page in which to write your post with easy access to the formatting options through a popup which … Continue reading →

One of the things I really like about the interface in Tweetie / Twitter for iPhone is being able to swipe a tweet to reveal actions beneath it.  This is my attempt to recreate it using HTML, CSS3 and Javascript.  … Continue reading →

After experimenting a bit with MySQL locking today, I thought I’d make a note of what I’d discovered: To create a lock, you need to use: LOCK TABLES table1 [READ |WRITE], table2 [READ |WRITE] READ is used to stop other people … Continue reading →

If you find that after rebooting your MySQL slave it stops replicating with the master and you see the “Failed to open the relay log” error in the logs it is probably caused by MySQL putting it’s relay logs in … Continue reading →

I had a look at the apps on the app store for this and couldn’t really tell if they did what I was looking for from the screenshots, so was reluctant to buy them, then Andy suggested that I should … Continue reading →