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Archive for October 2006

My friend’s horrible experience with Camera Works in Durham, NC

My friend memorly writes about her horrible experience with Camera Works in Durham, NC. Beware.

Everything you need to know about designing MySQL InnoDB primary keys

There are two aspects of how MySQL/InnoDB use a table’s primary key on the file system that have important ramifications for the key’s design: The primary key determines the order in which the data is physically stored in the main data file, aka “the clustered index”. Another way of saying this: the main data file [...]

Configuring mod_rewrite to provide permanent redirects after changing my WordPress permalink structure

In my quest for arbitrary and useless lexical elegance, a couple years ago I decided on a /%post_id% permalink structure for my blog. So all the URLs were of the structure http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/330. Since then, Ben has convinced me that a /date/title structure is the way to go, as it provides orientation for the user in [...]

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