Author: C.J. Collier

  • Is gtkglarea-sharp ready for production?

    I don’t know. Probably not quite yet. But there has been interest using the toolkit in a production video game. Fun. But what do you all think?

  • Useful MaxDB commands

    To find a list of tables in a schema: $ sqlcli -u TEST,TEST -d SYNCMANA “SELECT * FROM TABLES WHERE SCHEMANAME = ‘TEST'” To find a list of triggers on a table: $ sqlcli -u DBSERVICE,SECRET -d SYNCMANA “SELECT * FROM TRIGGERS WHERE TABLENAME = ‘T'” To describe a table’s structure: $ cat me &&…

  • Synchronization Manager: MySQL as replication destination

    Earlier this week, I wrote about the Synchronization Manager and gave a step-by-step tutorial on getting an initial scenario implemented. In this article, I’ll expand on the previous tutorial by introducing the concept of uni-directional synchronization. Uni-directional participants act as destinations for replicated data. These participants are sometimes called “slaves,” because they are not capable…

  • Creating a Synchronization Management Scenario

    This is a follow-up to my earlier article on the MaxDB Synchronization Manager. In the months since my prior article, the Synchronization Manager has proved itself production ready and capable of replicating real-world databases in demanding scenarios. Take the following as theoretical and emperical examples of such scenarios (not necessarily in that order): i) For…

  • Aggregated at adoppt

    My Blog at Adoppt

  • Have I mentioned Perl yet? No…

    I write and enjoy Perl. If you want to know how to write Perl, let me know, and I’ll try to schedule some time to learn you what I know…

  • libtao-opengl-cil has been packaged for Dapper!

    Wow! lurfagrin made my tao dist packages into .deb packages! http://colliertech.com/downloads/tao/ If you’re running Ubuntu Dapper Drake, you can install libtao-opengl-cil using this command: $ sudo apt-get install libtao-opengl-cil This is one of the pre-requisites to building gtkglarea-sharp. Thank you thank you thank you!

  • On vacation

    So. I’m on vacation. But I’m thinking a bit about work-related stuff, like Raimi’s MySQL-related blog entries: http://www.lkcc.org/~raimi/nb/archives/cat_9/ In case any of you out there read German. I know enough to figure out that he’s got a link to me in it :) Mark Thomas has created a blog as well. http://blog.theoupneustos.com/?cat=2

  • Building a domU with debootstrap

    http://www.option-c.com/xwiki/Create_a_Debian_VM_with_debootstrap

  • Sun server… incoming…

    Holy crap. Sun is sending me hardware for a try-n-buy thing. They say they’ll ship it in about 10 days. I wonder how disappointed they’re going to be when I wipe the OS they ship with it and install Sarge… Thanks to Ask for the tip. Now… how am I going to make this thing…