Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:25:32 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/ Attachmentgenie's hangout en http://www.attachmentgenie.com/images/ http://www.attachmentgenie.com/ bram@attachmentgenie.com http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article53.html Ok here goes, i promised myself a while back i would get MYSQL certified and finally had some time to sort it out. Turns out that MYSQL provides 4 certification levels; associate, developer, DBA, cluster DBA (http://www.mysql.com/certification/). The first one is designed to cater for users to show that they aren't complete muppets and can be trusted with the basics of MYSQL and cost $125/£110 and can be sat at a VUE test centre near you (http://www.vue.com). The developer and DBA certification are both version dependent and contain of 2 exams each ($125/£110 each). So you ll have to keep re-sitting every-time MYSQL upgrades its major version number. the developer exams focus on the in and outs of (ab-)using MYSQL server/queries in their day to day work. The DBA exams focus on server management and query optimization and can be sat independently of the developer exams. last but not least is the CLuster DBA exams who test you ability to run MYSQL cluster, the high availability solution offered by MYSQL. According to the MYSQL certification candidate guide (http://www.mysql.com/certification/candguide.html#t26) i only need to read the MySQL 5.0 Certification study guide instead of my previous list (http://www.attachmentgenie.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=32) to obtain the first 3 certifications but i have a feeling that ill still want to read a few of these books , especially the MYSQL phrasebook, MySQL Pocket Reference and visibone MySQL cards have been very useful so far. Judging by the subjects covered in the exams i am thinking about skipping the associate certification and go for the developer I and II first and then the DBA exams. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:25:32 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article48.html I spend 7 hours on bus today to have 3 min on court, what a day. Left London around 9 to arrive at home around 11.15am. Spend another 2.15 hrs being driven to Sheffield by our excellent driver/libero Denis (i swear he drives slower now his wife is here). THe whole team hasnt trained properly for the last 2 weeks and man did it show. Sheffield 2 is as such not a magnificent team but they have been training their ass of and kept rolling all there balls into 6 where we were struggling to pick them up. Did have a nice Nando's when we got home mmmmm... i am glad we didnt stop at wimpy's to finish of the pooh day in style Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article47.html we had a good turn out this year, so we ll prob be operating a student team of 16 players and let their commitment decide howfar they ll take it. unfortunately i couldnt make the session because i was in Holland for the weekend but it sounds like Billy and Brian did an excellent job Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article45.html Joost finally went officially beta today by releasing version 1.0beta. No more begging friends that want to get a piece of the pie :-( . (to be fair i already invited most of friends to join). I just finished watching star trek resurrection saweet. the content is getting better and better. Try it out for your self at www.joost.com Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article43.html Let me say it say it blows, not only does it bog down my whole system while insisting to start at start up, you can only watch stuff from the last week or so and you have to download the video's before watching them. So i would like to say Nice try but...its shite Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article46.html Having dreaded that we might have to play the very very old-school 6-2 system with our best players there is some sunlight at the horizon. Last week we had a new setter show so 6-1 is back on the cards and freshers week is still to come.. We had a classroom session(a pub session to be fair but you ll get the point.) today, to get our mind on next season and to explain my plans for this year. We ll be trying to get a competive team out this year while looking to the future in this transition year. Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article41.html Reading Aces vs Oxford students. Newly relegated and sporting Oxfords former coach/player Joe balance the team was looking forward to this game. Turned out the be fairly easy, reading only managed to put out 7 players including the coach and one of the lines people. Needless to say we were done pretty quickly, although we were sloppy enough to drop one set against them. We ll have a couple of weeks of before we play sheffield 2 away. This teams consist of lots of the sheffield Hallam players we meet during BUSA and EVA student cup so this should be good Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:47:08 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article38.html its coming...... on November 9th the iphone will be released over here in the uk. I cant wait and i so want one. The only thing is that you need to hand over 269 pounds ($540) and need to sign up with O2 for 2 years. lets hope a) apple doesnt pull a similar stunt they pulled in the us by lowering the price significantly after 2 months and b) O2 wants to give me a contract ,which isnt always easy when you only lived in the uk for 2 years Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:33:45 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article40.html I so had it planned i signed up a monster order of 17 players over the summer and in the last week before the season starts way to early i got the register two more players. Who are great assets for the team but still we can only take 13 (including non playing coach) to a match due to the space on the score sheet. Our opponents were the Brentwood Estonians that were the only team to beat us twice next year and during the away game we blew our chances to directly stay in div2. So we had some scores to settle while and we were anxious to see the full damage our heavily enforced team could do. ANd let me tell you we are gonna have some fun this year. After signing up two div one player and a top 20 australian beach player and 4 other guys we are cooking with gas. Even after putting on the "subs" the team didnt show a drop in quality at all. Saweet. go play to small tshirt team pic? Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:42:46 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article39.html I became an uncle for the 4th time now. Danny and Bianca are the proud parents of Lotte I so need to go over some time soon to go and see her. Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:35:39 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article50.html Moscow was awesome. I just had an amazing week in Moscow at my friends Denis's wedding. (and marina of course). I had the great road trip feeling to it while actually not having to spend lots of time in a car.(ok 7 hrs total in a plane and 2x 40 min on the train). Moscow is a great mix of "modern wester" life we are accustomed too over here and old ussr habits. THe wedding it self was amazing and the night in the park afterwards was unforgettable. Even trying to get russians to go to bed at 5 am i wouldn't have wanted to miss for the world If i get my act together ill upload some of the pics and ill try to elaborate a bit more on my week in russia Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article37.html I just wanted to update the navicore sat nav software on my N770, which pointed out the fact that the application database on the unit was corrupted. Luckily for me (not) the simplest way to resolve this is the update the unit. Which turned out the be an upgrade for me and man does it rock. the update from the v2 to v3 branch definitely speeds up the whole unit. So it turned out to be a good night after all. Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:29:39 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article42.html aarrrhrhrgh...So annoying I am living here for a year and a half now and this is the second bike i ve got stolen. so its back to running into work again until the insurance pays out. Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article36.html I registered 14 players now going on for 19. We are so gonna kick ass this year. keep your eye on this space for any updates about our team. Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article35.html I am such a nerd, i know but for this i will even start my pc now and then. I am totally lovin' the dutch uitzendinggemist.nl website were you can watch the programs made by the public broadcasting companies. I hope the BBC's version will live up to these high expectations Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article44.html Just downloaded the latest version of Joost for Pc. Joost is currently the only reason for me to start my pc (i dont own a intel mac yet) and let me tell you its finaly running the 100m under 10 seconds flat. On my reasonably aged system (amd duron 1350mhz 1gb ram) it wasnt running that smoothly sofar but now its awesome and the available content is growing weekly. i am contemplating booting into windows more often now. Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article49.html the MySQL Associate certification (CMA) is an entry level certification. It is intended for those that are relatively new to using the MySQL database server and covers basic database management system concepts as well as basic SQL. We recommend the CMA certification for MySQL users that know the basics, but have not yet obtained the experience gained by professional MySQL DBAs or Developers. The CMA certification may be seen as a stepping stone towards the more advanced Developer (CMDEV) and Database Administrator (CMDBA) certification. Holding CMA certification is not a formal prerequisite to attaining other certifications, you should consider starting your MySQL certification path with the CMA certification for a number of reasons: Gain experience and familiarity in taking MySQL Certification exams Ensure the prerequisites at are in place before investing into more expensive CMDEV and/or CMDBA certification mmm perhaps i should look into this too. Looks like MYSQL is creating a basic certification for MYSQL users. Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article24.html there must be something in the PHP water this week. After Several years (5+!!!) the latest installment of the postnuke CMS was released today. Finally phpnuke free and with API improvements that will make postnuke take a big step towards PHP5 OO programming woei. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:14:52 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article28.html The confirmation came in the post today, i dont just talk crap i can back it up now too. I underwent the level 1 coaching course a couple of weeks back and have now finally heared back about my exams results. It didnt stop me from implementing the course material to teach some summer students visiting Oxford university the lst two weeks. saweet, i ll be looking into aquiring level 2 certification soon. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article26.html finally results. Started of good last week, the dispence guy slapped some in the styrofoam and looks up to see who it its for, sees its me and adds some more. This week i didnt have to order anymore (still have to pay though) just had to wait for the bosses order to be finished. Aahhhhh the Kebab kid my friend :-) Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:37:01 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article27.html Two great PHP initiatives were launched in the last weeks. Over @ http://www.gophp5.org Larry Garfield kicked of the dance by starting a push to go PHP5 only from 5.2.2008 onwards. Major projects and more importantly ISP jumped in on the bandwagon. A week later PHP4 was sealed when the end of life for PHP4 was annouced. Long due natural progression i think.But there are still some mixed feelings around. If i have some time illtry to ctrl+cand xtrl+v some of the links together. Mental note: must bug myisp for PHP5. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:07:16 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article32.html I decided to bite the bullet and finally get MySQL certified. I ll try and keep you posted in the hopefully very near future about my progress. Anyhow these are 30 cm of nerdy literature i think ill need to read on my way to full blown certification MySQL 5.0 Certification study guide MySQL Clustering MySQL tutorial MySQL database design and tuning Mysql in a nutshell MYSQL high performance MySQL MySQL stored procedure MySQL cookbook MYSQL phrasebook MySQL Pocket Reference visibone MySQL cards This should keep me going for a while and i am sure i wont need half of them or will only need to read half due to reitteration. but still the pile looks impressive on my night stand Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article25.html the name says it all, From the 1st of juli onwards smoking is banned in all English pubs. No more stinking hair and cloths. no more coughing while eating or drinking. aahahahahahhah, blissfull hapiness Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:31:05 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article52.html still lovin' the Dualphone especially now the released their new firmware. Not only does it speed up the feel of the phone but also this update enables the multiple handset modus. The only downsides i have seen so far are that when the screensaver kicks in the screen goes proper black and you ll have to push a button first to get the screen back and now that fact that you can only be logged in with one skype account at a time (even when you have multiple handsets) Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.attachmentgenie.com/Article21.html I so want one, Damien Seguy over at nexen.net has started a wicked intiative to create a PHP elephant toy. No open for general release yet but he is taking large scale orders to manufature them. Might send and email to some friends to helphim out Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:46:27 +0200