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Month: May, 2007

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at D5

The two masterminds of software and hardware industries shared a stage at D5 after a long time.
Read the full conversation at D5 site.

MySQL: Get next auto increment value

Recently, I needed to get the auto increment value for the next inserted row in a MySQL table.  Generally, this is not a good idea and you should stop reading right now.
You may end up with duplicate entries in your application, which is not a good thing.
At a first glance you may think: “I can [...]

It’s all about simplicity

7 scrollbars in 1 page.
This is what Microsoft thinks about simplicity and accessibility…

MySQL FULLTEXT Stopwords

These words could save you a lot of time figuring why this fulltext query returns nothing..
a’s, able, about, above, according, accordingly, across, actually, after, afterwards, again, against, ain’t, all, allow, allows, almost, alone, along, already, also, although, always, am, among, amongst, an, and, another, any, anybody, anyhow, anyone, anything, anyway, anyways, anywhere, apart, appear, appreciate, [...]