Hello, I'm the IT and software equivalent of the Merv Griffin Show
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Short: Hey everybody.
Long:
Hello, I'm new here, and while there was a thread to introduce yourself, it was already nearly 400 posts long and I am far, far too irritating to be buried that deep.I'm also a loudmouth, super pretentious, wanna-be expert on Spiceworks (even though I've never used the software, btw that link is my profile there), Twitter, and on my blog.
My hobbies are: programming and eating, and posting on tech forums, that's it.
I also like PHP, node.js, chocolate milk, thunderstorms, constant rain (I could live on Kamino; speaking of, I think the Empire is good and the Republic is a religious tyranny and the Jedi are basically terrorists and religious police), night time, MySQL, cookies, FreeBSD, pizza, Hungary (the country, I never get the feeling). My political beliefs can be summed up as "absolute freedom of speech and religion", "capitalism", and "Stratocracy" (not important unless you bring it up, not sure why I did), I'm also interested in human languages, soda (as in making and drinking it), I despise paper, filing cabinets, paper for any use, fax machines, and Luddites.
I'm fat, but thanks to genetics I'm fairly strong, but I never use it for anything useful, let alone to exercise, as a result I'm really unhealthy. I also don't play video games very often and I've never really liked them, though I do like various older Mario games. For the most part if I play a video game I feel like I'm wasting my time and need to create something instead. I'm incapable of relaxing, ever.
A lot of people don't like me, and part of the reason I created this thread is so either people can discuss why they don't or they can use this thread's creation of an example of why they don't like me. It's not that I strive for people to dislike me, I'm not a troll, it's that I'm honest about my thoughts, especially when it comes to IT, programming, etc and I'm not afraid to tell people they're wrong and then trying to go on to prove it. Like I said, I'm super pretentious, but I do have a sense of humour about myself and about everything else.
And I also created this thread so we can talk about all these things, be it chocolate milk or why you hate PHP and MySQL and only like PostgreSQL because you still think it's 2004 and nothing ever improves.
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Hello tony aka Mr. Pretentious. Welcome! I hope you're able to connect with like minded people and some how grown beyond your comfort zone.
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@MrWright4hire said:
Hello tony aka Mr. Pretentious. Welcome! I hope you're able to connect with like minded people and some how grown beyond your comfort zone.
Thanks, me too, Mr Wright
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So how strong are you with the SQL?
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@MrWright4hire Pretty strong. Assuming we're talking about MySQL centered and not something like T-SQL, which I know fairly well, but MySQL's my wheelhouse.
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I was asking cause I don't know much about it. worked on it a while back, but now...no go. You know any great video tutorials on the matter?
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@MrWright4hire No, sorry, I don't. I got mostly acquainted with MySQL prior to YouTube and so forth. I still watch some stuff related to highly scalable stuff every now and again, though the kind of stuff I've done sometimes goes beyond even the hypothetical environments in the videos, unless the video is about Facebook or something that big. My suggestion though if you just want some basic information about it, MySQL's web site actually does have a lot of information, and in addition to that, the stackoverflow.com tag for MySQL is good, and there are tons of other tutorials out there.
Getting the base information is fairly straight forward, getting good information on storage engines, indices, proper queries, etc (something you should worry about once you're familiar with SQL itself) is in the manual, but usually there is sort of vague and hard to understand, so it'll take some searching. There may be videos about this stuff, but again I don't know, maybe go to Google Video and search MySQL and change your search options for videos 20+ minutes, that way you know they're detailed.
On my blog I also write articles about MySQL and MySQL-related projects from time to time, and I suggest you check out the ones involving case sensitivity and also unicode storage.
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@tonyshowoff said:
@MrWright4hire No, sorry, I don't. I got mostly acquainted with MySQL prior to YouTube and so forth. I still watch some stuff related to highly scalable stuff every now and again, though the kind of stuff I've done sometimes goes beyond even the hypothetical environments in the videos, unless the video is about Facebook or something that big. My suggestion though if you just want some basic information about it, MySQL's web site actually does have a lot of information, and in addition to that, the stackoverflow.com tag for MySQL is good, and there are tons of other tutorials out there.
Getting the base information is fairly straight forward, getting good information on storage engines, indices, proper queries, etc (something you should worry about once you're familiar with SQL itself) is in the manual, but usually there is sort of vague and hard to understand, so it'll take some searching. There may be videos about this stuff, but again I don't know, maybe go to Google Video and search MySQL and change your search options for videos 20+ minutes, that way you know they're detailed.
On my blog I also write articles about MySQL and MySQL-related projects from time to time, and I suggest you check out the ones involving case sensitivity and also unicode storage.
Thanks Tony! I'll check those links out.
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Welcome!
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Welcome!
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Welcome to the party.
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Thanks for the welcome wagon everyone
