After a few years on Gallery 1.X, which with a few tweaks worked quite well for me, I've decided to make the transition to Flickr's pro account. The conversion was largely made possibly by a tweaked gallery2flickr script that allowed me to move albums over without loosing any data in a process, which is always a good thing. It still took some time, but in the end I am quite happy with the results. Flickr has some very neat features in comparison to Gallery such as geo-tagging, very convenient interface for tagging and labeling photos, which at least in Gallery 1.X was rather frustrating. My new gallery can now be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/iliaal/

I spotted Edin's blog post about PHP 4.4.6 now being linked against MySQL 5.0.36 on Windows and decided to see what is new in that release in comparison to the 5.0.33 I am currently running. A quick visit to the MySQL's downloads page revealed a distinct absence of said release however. There are however release notes about MySQL 5.0.37, which lists some compelling fixes. Unfortunately, this release is nowhere to be found as well, even though the release notes claim it was released on 27 February 2007. A simple question comes to mind, WTF?

Sometimes the things you'll find on a bookshelves of your local book store can be quite unusual and downright weird. Consider the following super-hero themed series of books on Windows products by O'Reilly.

As you may already know or soon will find out MySQL had released a new version of their community server, 5.0.33. First all congratulations to developers, any release is a lot of work and finally pushing it out the public is definitely an achievement. There are however some interesting and in my eyes less then positive developments pertaining to this release. As you can see from Kaj's announcement as well as the state of the MySQL's download page pre-compiled binaries are no longer offered. The only files available for MySQL 5.0.33 are sources for *NIX and Windows platforms. While this is not an issue for NIX users where lack of binaries will be resolved by distros and if not, the compiler is always available and compiling MySQL is big issue, it does pose a major problem for Windows users who generally do not have access to a C/C++ compiler. This means that all the people who develop on Win32 and then deploy on NIX machines will need to stick to older versions of the database for the dev environme...

With the release of IE7 many web developers were faced with a need to test their applications on the different versions of IE, but had no means to do so since only one IE can run on Windows. Now there were different hacks available around it, but in most instances you ended up using portion of IE7 libs for IE6 emulation and thereby not getting quite the same behavior. Today on IE blog a much better solution was offered by Microsoft (kudos guys). Basically they've allowed Windows owners (after genuine advantage check, which now can be done via Firefox as well) to download WinXP SP2 image with IE6 and run via a free download of "Virtual PC 2004". This means you can safely upgrade you WinXP box to IE7 and run IE6 via an image, thus giving you 2 versions of IE on the same machine this minimum amount of hassle.