Picking up the breadcrumbs

 18th May 2010 by Chris

Its always easy to skip going through the details of what your stacked up knowledge and just go for trying out new stuff. This time, I take it one step back and skim through pages of books I have always ignored and pick some sections that are worth looking into and post them here.

I've been trying to cut down on paper materials at home. Mostly, trying to read all those books and photocopied materials and just jot down notes from them. I decided to post them instead. See some string, number, time/date extensions.

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Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL

 4th December 2008 by Chris

Along with the migration that I have done from SVN to Git and deploying my projects using Capistrano recipes, I was also faced with one task that was not very easy. I had to move my MySQL databases to PostgreSQL.

Why move?

Well, I gave it a thought, and I feel that I am now more comfortable with using Rails with PostgreSQL. Another factor is that I've already used MySQL in my early programming days and seemed fit for small scale projects. Since I have been dealing more and more with bigger databases, I'm getting the hang of using PostgreSQL over MySQL. It didn't really have to be very technical, but the simple preference mattered much.

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Hi, I've been busy you know. wink If you don't know yet, this site and my blog codes are hosted in . I recently moved to Git and found that they have support for private Git repositories. Below are details of my last git push.

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