The Ji Village News

Category: Web

  • Consolidating Twitter feeds with Yahoo Pipes

    I have been suffering from web addiction for a long time. So when Twitter first came out, I figured that would be the last thing I need. Plus, to really take advantage of Twitter, you’ve got to have a relatively fancy phone with a data plan. A decent phone costs anywhere between 150 and 400…

  • Liked WP-SpamFree so far

    During my to WordPress 2.6.2, I decided to use the default spam plug-in, Akismet. After a few days of usage, there were still a few trackbacks slipped through, creating additional emails and work for me. So I wasn’t too satisfied and searched for an alternative spam plug-in. I decided to try WP-SpamFree. So far it…

  • Played with Google Chrome

    Google Chrome Beta is available for download today. I played with it. I am not impressed at the moment and will not convert from Firefox. I may give it another whirl in a few months. The strength of Firefox, in my view, is its many available extensions, which practically spoil and pamper me to the…

  • Migrating from one RDBMS to another

    Here is some of my thoughts on migrating MySQL to Sql Server. It came out of an email discussion. I’d love to hear your thoughts on migrating to a different database platform, not just MySQL to Sql Server. I actually thought about writing a white paper or even a course on migrating from MySQL to…

  • Internet connection problem when Symantec anti-virus software is not running

    I noticed there were a lot of bloated Symantec anti-virus junk installed on a workstation I work with. So I disabled most of them in Windows services. The next day I came back, I couldn’t connect to the web with my Firefox anymore, but could connect via Internet Explorer. In addition, connecting to remote Sql…