A few months ago, when I had to send a text message (SMS) to someone, I would simply type in 'rogers sms' or 'bell sms' into Google , and the first hit would be that page.

Both companies have since redesigned their sites and it's becoming harder to find their SMS pages. You have to drill down into their menus and pages to find these. So to save time I thought I'd post all the links here:

The reason for my lack of posting is directly related to the workload that I currenly have. A big project that I love working on had me consumed for the past 2 weeks, but within that time, I've learned a ton of new things and I'll be posting more about this in the coming days.

One of the first things I had to do for a project was move a few tables form different database together, into one database. It’s a simple enough command:

RENAME TABLE database1.table1 TO database2.table1;

Having to move data from one location to another, or one drive to another in a database can be quite a hair-raising expericene. With MySql, it’s really not that bad. I have a database on a Window 2003 server, but the steps for Linux and Mac OSX are very similar.

But just to be sure that we won’t be shooting ourselves in the foot, lets make a backup of our databases. Whichever way you choose to do it is your call… ( mysqldump, using a 3rd party tool to create a csv files of your tables…etc)

First, lets shutdown the database:

I am going to be talking about something that is very near and dear to my heart. I didn’t think I would be revealing this to my blog audience so soon. I try to closely guard it because I’m not 100% proud of it. It is something that isn’t fully under my control, so bare with me while you read this… and please don’t poke fun.

I'm not much of a book person during the better part of the year - mainly because I have enough reading from school to keep me occupied. Now that the exams are over, I've got my eye on a few books that I'd like to dive into.

I don't read novels (fiction) so most of the time I don't see the point in buying a book. If I need some information, I just Google it. It's always available and most of all, always up to date - especially when they are books about technical information that changes almost monthly.

A colleague of mine approached me about a month and a half ago because she was looking for a programmer to do some work - temporary summer position - setting up a Wiki, and customizing it.

At first, I was interested in the job, but after looking at my options and current status, I had to turn it down. From that point onwards, I started looking for friends I knew from university that could fill the position. I asked a handful of close friends first, and they all had jobs lined up for the summer, I started asking acquaintances that I had interacted with, but not necessarily worked with them directly, and most of them had temporary or full time offerings. I was having a hard time finding people who were unemployed in Software Engineering.