• April 17th, 2008
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  • Apple
  • Rants
  • Web Development

I have a confession to make.

SQL Server 2000 by MICRO$OFT is the best SQL application I have ever used.

Select query text -> run (ctrl+enter) -> results. nothing out there does this simple behavior.

For everything I love about OSX I do miss a couple of apps since I jumped ship in June of ‘06. A decent SQL application is right up there at the top.

The Candidates

Navicat

 I use Navicat on a daily basis but it drives me IN SANE. All I want is a simple application for running queries that’s easy to navigate and has plenty of hotkeys baked in so I can bounce around with ease and speed. Navicat fails miserably at this. I end up with 5 windows open just to do simple stuff, there’s not enough distinction between the behavior of browsing tables or writing queries. It’s a painful, verbose, hassle. Today I was so pumped I found a couple hotkeys that would save me a lot of time only to find out they were useless because they didn’t put focus on a textarea that would be painfully obvious to anyone actually using the program. Multiple queries require multiple windows and it all ends up being a CF in the end. I’m looking to replace Navicat pronto.

Query Browser

Query Browser could be awesome, but it comes up short. Again a lack of hot keys and cursor focus make using it a pain. Frequent crashes don’t help (it crashed on me twice while writing this). My biggest peeve by far is how Query Browser deals with errors. You end up getting this tiny sliver of an area dedicated to errors. If you get a couple in a row they all stack and become unreadable and you can’t even resize the errors window space OR clear them out. I do like how Query Browser makes use of tabs for multiple queries instead of creating a new window each time (take note Navicat).

phpMyAdmin

I know other mac users who just use phpMyAdmin for all their SQL needs. I hate the lag of a web interface for something that is screaming for an application interface. Again, phpMyAdmin is sans hotkeys. That’s a deal breaker.

Dismay

If anyone can enlightened me please speak up. I’ve looked near and far and this is the only list of apps I have found and I assume it’s pretty comprehensive. I tried a couple of these applications out and found that I was already using the best available out there.

I’m very close to just retreating back to the basics.

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• March 31st, 2008
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  • Rants

I should stop checking my email just one last time before going to bed. You’d be surprised how much sleep I lose getting reeled back in after planning to look and leave. It’s a nasty habit I’ve got to stop. But this is just too funny not to post.

I like when people try to trick me online. I like seeing what methods they employ and what they try to get me to do. Tonight I got a Facebook Marketplace inquiry from Jared Lerum. He was inquiring about a leather chair I posted on FB Marketplace a while ago.

It’s a good chair but it has damage, I don’t use it, and it takes up too much space in my apt so I tossed it up there fully expecting nothing to come of it. Well at least it was worth a laugh. “Jared Lerum” wanted to pay me with a Cashiers Check for a $55 used chair with fire damage. Pretty pathetic. So I took 5 min to humor myself at Jared’s expense and figured I’d share with my homies.

The Proposal

Scammers Profile

The Prize

I always knew the power of Facebook’s Social Graph. Mapping the relationship of all of your users gives these types of spammers no where to hide. Your connections become your reputability. It’s cool to see it in action.

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