Archive for the 'Software' Category

MySQL Unique Key Pairs

This is one of those things that is easy to do, but I frequently forget because of how little I deal with SQL syntax. Essentially, there are times when you want two fields to be unique together. For example, you might have a table with a city field and a state field. [...]

I have used Pidgin with my main Gmail account for quite a while, but I ran into some trouble today configuring it for a GoogleTalk account from “Google Apps for your Domain.” So, here are my quick notes with screenshots to show how to set up this type of GoogleTalk account in Pidgin (screenshots [...]

My Asus N50-V notebook that I bought a few weeks ago came with Windows Vista on it. I knew that I’d dual boot Vista and Ubuntu, but I figured I would just wait the few days before the newest version of Ubuntu came out toward the end of April before installing it. That [...]

Various WordPress Issues

I’ve mentioned a few times here and there that I am working on my own blogging software. I had actually hoped to be switched over to it by the middle of this month, but I’ve been working two jobs (and doing that crazy school thing), so I haven’t had as much free time as [...]

These are just various errors that I’ve come across recently. I think all of these are excellent examples as to how NOT to show errors