http://blog.andaiconsulting.com/wp The African Globalist touches on issues brought about by the convergence of technology, open markets and global business strategy. It also chronicles lessons learned on an ongoing projects including a web-based content management system in PHP, ASP.Net development and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:09:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been a while since I have been able to do any decent blog posts. Since I have been working on other projects, consulting and personal and I have just been too busy to update this blog... but I am back... To start off, I have been thinking about a ... http://blog.andaiconsulting.com/wp/archives/68 For those developing MySQL database solutions, you may have wondered what the difference is between InnoDB vs. ISAM vs. Heap database tables. This TechRepublic article titled, "A fast and furious guide to MySQL database engines" is a great primer that explains in a nutshell, the different database engines supported by ... http://blog.andaiconsulting.com/wp/archives/66 Scientific America is reporting that "researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke up during reentry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crew members" http://blog.andaiconsulting.com/wp/archives/65 I have been fighting with a permissions issue with SharePoint today. What's been happening is that I have a custom dll that I created which will load just fine if I don't really have it do anything. However, once it starts running code that accesses the SharePoint Object model, then ... http://blog.andaiconsulting.com/wp/archives/64 For those of you like me who have the Samsung BlackJack and have been waiting to get upgraded, you can now rejoice. Samsung has finally released the upgrade ROM for Windows Mobile 6. If you head on over to the download section of Samsung's website, you'll find the downloads and ... http://blog.andaiconsulting.com/wp/archives/63 I am writing this post because of the headache I faced trying to load and run a custom user control in SharePoint and the lack of good documentation on how to address the issues I faced. Hopefully this post will help others who are having the exact same problem easily ... http://blog.andaiconsulting.com/wp/archives/62 The MySQL database management system, available under the GNU license (also available under a number of other propriety licenses) is very popular, especially for web applications, due to its speed. I believe part of its speed is because it had certain features one comes to expect in DBMSs missing. Some ... http://blog.andaiconsulting.com/wp/archives/59 I have spent the last two days trying to configure a new install of PHP 5.2 to work on with my new local install of Xitami web server. This was not a great experience simply because I could not get PHP to work satisfactorily with Xitami. What's even worse is ... http://blog.andaiconsulting.com/wp/archives/50 I am done with the initial base templates I plan to use. Currently the templates are straight XHTML and CSS but I will have to incorporate some PHP code in them. However before I can do this, I must first turn my attention back to the PHP classes that I had ... http://blog.andaiconsulting.com/wp/archives/48 The Times Online has a great articles on big three technology companies, Apple, MySpace and Nokia, and their decisions to open up their web platforms and allow other parties develop services that leverage their platforms. This decision is long over due. In this day and age, I find it amazing that ... http://blog.andaiconsulting.com/wp/archives/43