Having just come back from a trip to Landmark Trust’s ‘Gothic Temple’ in Stowe I can absolutely recommend it. Staying in a temple in the middle of dozens of acres of National Trust grounds is fantastic. The temple has a triangular footprint wrapped around the central circular (domed) space with turrets at each corner of …
I’ve been learning more about MySQL lately and particularly optimising SQL queries on large tables. Large, in this case, being at the moment hundreds of thousands of rows but soon to be millions. One of the problems I’ve had is that MySQL sometimes decides not to use an index even when a handy one seems …
Having signed up for blogger back in september 2003 it’s now taken me just over a year to get round to writing a first proper post. A short intro: I’m a director of a web development company called Exponetic based in Bethnal Green, London. If you haven’t been to Bethnal Green: it’s a marvellous place. …