Loading to RAM vs Querying to get all

The title of the post is pretty streight forward. Here is a problem i face every day and i believe every developer, that has something to do with databases, does. When you need a result set that has to be created out of sever or eight tables what do you do? Do you...

Writing a Mail2SMS app…

I thought of this idea a few days ago and it realy got me excited. The basic thought is that a daemon checks your email and when you have a new one he dispatches and SMS to you with the sender and the subject of the message. This way you can chill out anywhere and...

49 days to Easter…

Kites all over Greece! Well not here, where i live because there is no wind what so ever, but in general it’s tradition. Kites, chalva, olives, lagana and in general all the little things. Counting today, 49 days of a very hard fasting period start, leading to...

Unix set timezone

A quickie here fellas. If you want to set your time on a unix machine you have to do two things. First of all set the timezone and then set the correct time. You set the timezone by copying the appropriate file to /etc/localtime. For instance, if you want to set your...