My Problem I have a program that runs every 10 seconds. It reads information from a website which includes data on users and products and what each are doing. It takes this information and updates it to an internal database. This takes from 100 to low 1000’s of queries and updates. It’s updating light data, …
I’m in the process of moving, optimizing, and finding more efficient and space saving ways to use MySQL. This will document some of the tricks I am learning for my future reference. How to see how much diskspace a database is taking up SELECT table_schema AS “database”, SUM(data_length + index_length) / 1024 / 1024 AS …
I plan on soon purchasing an inexpensive VPS for hosting websites and running some of the applications I have developed. My plan is to buy one of the cheapest services available and then optimize as much as I can to take advantage of the limited resources. Before I purchase a VPS, I am doing experiments …
It was a beautiful day in May two years ago when I stumbled upon a pile of old computer parts in a parking garage. It felt like it was Christmas again. I don’t mean adult Christmas, but child Christmas, when you could still feel the magic of the season and couldn’t fall asleep on Christmas …
2018 Politicon in downtown Los Angeles would be best described as a depressing analysis of our current political climate. There were more Trump supporters than past Politicons, and they were exceeding vocal. Kathy Griffin threw out a couple of them because they were heckling. On the whole I would say the Trump people were given …
Unless you live somewhere like San Diego, a significant amount of your utility bills will go towards maintaining your living space at a comfortable temperature. There are ways to minimize these expenditures to help you save more money for or during your early retirement. The temperature in your house is determined entirely by the laws …
If you follow my strategy I guarantee you will get back more money from slot machines than you put in. You should also keep in mind it’s all for fun. When you are gambling you should never expect to win big bucks and this will likely not even get you to break minimum wage for …
DealDash is a site where you can pick up useful items for less than you can buy them anywhere else. It’s also a site where you are more likely to pay much more for an item than it is worth. There are really only a few rules for winning an auction: Bid against people who …
Lighter Fluid Once oil stains have been “baked on”, as in they have already gone through a wash and dry, the only way to clean the stain is with something like lighter fluid. I soaked the stain with lighter fluid and let it sit in the sink for several hours. Then washed it off and …
If I see there’s a new Sci-Fi movie with good reviews I’m definitely going to see it. However in the case of Annihilation I would not call it neither good nor Sci-Fi. The movie should be classified for as an emotional horror thriller. The overall style to the film is definitely reminiscent of Arrival, which …