wade womersley – york based software engineer
Engineering notes from the sharp end
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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That’s the name of the video “Good News – Windows 7.” The little kid is called Kelly and she believes “seven” is a happy word – it does stand for “togetherness” in China though so maybe that’s the underlying message here – “with Windows 7, we’re together again and I’m stealing your soul.” At the … Read More “Good News – Windows 7” »
The days of true weightlessness on earth are drawing ever closer. NASA has created an anti-gravity field! …just it only works on mice for now. In the picture below, mouse b is floating without the use of anything but magnets – yes magnets. It turns out superconducting magnets can repel water without almost absolute-zero temperatures. … Read More “Anti-Gravity Mice” »
Ubuntu…it’s a great Linux OS to use on servers due to its speed and simplicity – personal preference based on no statistics, only personal use. However, one thing Linux drives me mad with is software RAID. It’s taken me the better part of a day to set up a few RAID partitions, two of which … Read More “Linux RAID, MySQL” »
It’s cute, it has to be posted:
Google has a great feature called Google Suggest, if you didn’t know, it’s where as you enter a search term, it provides a dropdown of things you may be searching for – kind of like auto-complete. It is a really useful feature as often people do search for almost exactly the same string. Sometimes however, … Read More “Google loves to help, just not always how you expect” »
Next year me, Jared, my mother and my sister are supposed to be going to see Jared’s mother for a week (in the states) then driving down to Florida and staying there for a week. That way the parents get to meet and then we get some sun and fun in Florida… …I say supposed … Read More “Oasis of the Seas – Next Holiday Planned!” »
We have Eurotrash, the Japanese have a whole collection of random TV shows, most recently is Ancient Dogoo Girl who’s magical breasts are the source of her power (and yet somehow this promo is still SFW, barely.)
InnoISAM is what I need, a happy medium between InnoDB and MyISAM. I need the speed of inserts of InnoDB with the speed of selects of MyISAM – no HEAP will not work because the JOIN that I do results in the HEAP table being converted into MyISAM. You get two tables that deal with … Read More “InnoISAM / District 9” »
I don’t know what to say other than, it has to be read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Balls My Balls (オレたま, Ore Tama?) is a Japanese manga written by Shigemitsu Harada The fate of the world rests in one man’s testicles. In a freak sealing accident, the Queen of Terror is sealed into Satou Kohta’s testicles…
Ah Friday’s, it’s always a good day in the office, everyone (at least in the dev team) know it’s Friday, and most weeks, Dan’s behaviour is a tell tale sign. Friday also means pub lunch day, something to look forward to…usually – however today was a sad day, our usual pub, the Wellington, let us … Read More “Hidden things, lack of fries and pointless data” »