A couple weeks ago I had been working on something I thought would be pretty cool. The idea was a video player that could stream videos from external servers. The way I had planned on accomplishing this was via JavaFX and a signed applet. Needless to say (if you read the title) it didn’t really [...]

I recently had an interesting experience with Facebook. I made an application that let a user search for another user’s public albums even if they weren’t on each other’s friends list. This application didn’t violate any clause of the TOS list at the time. The application made use of a design decision on Facebook’s part [...]

Recently I discovered that the recommended way of changing a column type of a table in MySQL is intolerably slow. By recommended I mean that the first result of searching for “how to change column type mysql” (excluding quotes) is a link to the MySQL developer documentation for an ALTER TABLE query.
The circumstances started [...]