phpMyAdmin 3.4.3.1…

I’m not a major user of mySQL, but I’ve been a dabbler for quite a few years as I use it for my website.

For my day-to-day poking around I tend to use phpMyAdmin. I don’t always keep on top of phpMyAdmin upgrades, but today I upgraded to version 3.4.3.1, which comes with a new default theme. I know it’s rather shallow, but what a difference a pretty interface makes. 🙂

Cheers

Tim…

The Dresden Files: Side Jobs

Side Jobs is a collection of short stories about characters from The Dresden Files series. Many of the stories have been published previously on the internet or in anthologies, so it’s not really new.

It’s kinda hard to describe the book because it contains a mix of stories of varying length and quality. Some are very weak and could be removed from the book at no loss. A couple are very good and show the characters they reference in a new light. One of the things with The Dresden Files series is it is all from the perspective of Harry, so you only know as much about other characters as Harry does. Some of these stories are told from other characters perspectives, so that quite literally changes your view point considerably.

If you are a Dresden fan I’m sure you’ll love it. If not, you will probably do well to avoid it.

BTW. The last story in the book takes place between the end of the Changes and the soon to be released Ghost Story. It kind of revved me up and got me exited about the new release again.

Cheers

Tim…

WordPress 3.2 Released…

WordPress 3.2 has been released.

This is a big change and it is worth doing some testing before launching straight in. The minimum supported versions of mySQL and PHP have changed, so check your service can handle it using this plugin (Health Check).

You can read more about the changes in 3.2 here.

While writing this post in 3.2 I can see straight away that everything is much more responsive. No more waiting for the link dialog to appear etc. 🙂

Cheers

Tim…