Copying a MySQL table with schema and keys, but not data

Here’s a great thing I learned about MySQL today: [sql]CREATE TABLE newtable LIKE oldtable[/sql] Will create a copy of the table along with structure and keys (primary keys, auto increments etc) but not the data. This is perfect solution to create new tables based on an existing one – we use it to create a […]

Do you see a difference?

His name is “Max Kor”. He’s from Israel. He was made using Maya and Mental Ray. No, that doesn’t mean his mother’s name is Maya and his father’s name is Ray. Mental Ray is Autodesk’s high-performance rendering engine for generating photo realistic images. Maya is Autodesk’s integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution. Combined, […]

Have you done Jing?

One of our clients suggested Jing for creating videos that will help us track bugs better. I hesitated initially but after using it for a while, I’ve just fallen in love with Jing! With Jing you can easily capture your screen (and audio) and share it with others. It’s very intelligent, works efficiently and is […]

Mobile AJAX

It’s hot these days! Mobile AJAX! W3C/OpenAjax Workshop on Mobile Ajax happened yesterday, and there is some interesting reading in the papers. If you are new to Mobile AJAX, dev.mobi’s got a very well written introductory article.

Embedded Databases and all…

Been trying out different embedded databases for the past few days. And am not sure which one is the best. The background is this: We have a desktop application in C#, and are sending data from desktop to the PHP backend on the server. Since the data is going to be large, we want to […]