http://www.richrock.co.uk RichRock - the man, the music, the pictures, the nonsense. Oh, and Web Development stuff occasionally... Thu, 15 May 2008 15:42:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en These guys rule the roost with their DVD's showing the best mountain biking action in the most creative way, using film as the media... Watch... I can't wait... http://www.richrock.co.uk/2008/05/13/the-collective-seasons-new-mtb-dvd/ While I wait for the backups to complete, I find myself drifting around on the internet. In my open-source meanderings (on Firefox obviously), I find this. A spiffy collection of cool tech-orientated cartoons, with one of my favourite Dilbert strips at the top. Plus I want this. As ... http://www.richrock.co.uk/2008/04/28/more-linux-fanaticism/ Simple - in a mysql prompt, type this: SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE 'tablename'; Where the tablename is the table you need to find the next auto_increment value. It should be the 9th value in the results. http://www.richrock.co.uk/2008/04/25/mysql-next-auto-increment/ Well, I'm supposed to be teaching in my homegroup tonight. There is a preferred subject, but I've had no inspiration about how to go about it. The problem is simple - do a subject I've done quite a few times, but differently. All I have is a sequence of ... http://www.richrock.co.uk/2008/04/23/teaching-but-no-insights/ I'll admit that I'm a n00b at this. I've been starting on the slippery road to being a programmer, having dabbled in a little Javascript and fairly fluent in HTML & CSS. So now I find myself trying to grasp the concept of PHP programming. Don't forget - I'm ... http://www.richrock.co.uk/2008/04/03/php-programming/ Don't get me wrong. I like watching movie trailers from www.apple.com/trailers. But this metrics.apple.com just makes it hang. I can leave a page loading for about 10 minutes and still it's 'waiting for metrics.apple.com' If anyone's got any idea why, or if I can bypass it, ... http://www.richrock.co.uk/2008/02/20/bloomin-apple-trailers/