Technical stuff Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're frozen.

You go to the yUml site and throw some data in the text box offered Press “Generate the Diagram!” Voila! And here’s an example, as well: [sourcecode] http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;scale:60/usecase/[Admin]^[User Free], [Admin]^[User Premium], [Admin]-(note: Most privileged user), [User Free]-(note: No costs), [User Premium]-(note: Monthly subscription), [User Free]-(Login), [User Free]-(Logout) , [User Premium]-(Login), [User Premium]-(Logout) , (Login)<(Reminder) , ...

So, we need to find out different values of a column and the number of their occurrences. Let’s set up a small test first: -- Step #1: prepare the ground CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `test`; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`.`test_count_distinct`; CREATE TABLE `test`.`test_count_distinct` ( `id` INT(11) NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY, `title` VARCHAR(50) NOT ...

Tomorrow a new Ubuntu version will be released, 9.04. From the announced features, the ones I like most is the shipment of OpenOffice 3 (finally!) and a lot of feature enhancements to improve the user experience. The release nots are here. ...

You might need to make a short video recording of your actions to share with someone else. Maybe you need to show a client how things should be done, or you want to show off to your blog’s readers, who knows? What software package to use? There are a lot of solutions out there, I’ve ...

There are explained several options one has when trying to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine. ...

Correct syntax to add two numbers using Smarty. ...