Monthly Archives: May 2008
- May 30, 2008
- Password strength checker
We all know passwords are the bane of any internet users online experience. So many sites, each with their own authentication requirements.
I came across this handy site called passwordmeter to help test the strength of your passwords.
It’s cool because it gives you an instant visual response for your passwords based upon things like;Number of characters
Upper [...]
- May 22, 2008
- INSERT DELAYED with MySQL
Yet another tip for MySQL users, INSERT DELAYED.
What does it do? Well when you execute your query MySQL will return an ok immediately to your application, and the request then gets queued to be INSERTED when the table in question is not being used by any other thread. This obviously means your application doesn’t [...]
- May 22, 2008
- Setting up svn:externals with subclipse
Setting up “externals” with subversion can assist you when you want to load external libraries into an existing project.
You may have a JavaScript validation framework which you re-use amongst many projects. Of course you don’t want to copy and paste the code into every project, what would happen then if you wanted to upgrade the [...]