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Exporting from MySQL to CSV

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simonwheatley
1 year, 2 months ago
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Everytime I need to do this I go into at least five minutes of Googling for a decent solution. The problem is that a lot of people don’t have access to the commandline, so the solutions all reference PHPMyAdmin which is, you know, OK, but I don’t use it or want to install it just to export some quick reports. Other solutions are similarly indirect.

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Staggering onwards is not good

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simonwheatley
1 year, 3 months ago
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For animals, pain is a signal that something is wrong and it needs fixing. If pain didn’t exist we’d all be accidentally leaving our hand on the burning gas hob, or on the electric bar fire and wondering about the burning smell long after we’d been injured. We want to know when something isn’t right, and we want to know as quickly and “loudly” as possible.

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The Government double charges us for data

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simonwheatley
2 years, 10 months ago
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I’ve just felt sufficiently exercised to write to my MP, about the UK government charging for information they’ve collected with our (the UK taxpayers) money. For example, I’m doing a location based events search for Arts & Kids. The data underpinning this has been collected by OS and the Royal Mail, using tax payers money, and yet the charity is having to pay for it in order to provide a free service to UK citizens.

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Startershop is out!

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simonwheatley
2 years, 10 months ago
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We’ve just launched our new ecommerce product, Startershop. As it says on the tin: Startershop is an easy to use, no-nonsense ecommerce solution for just £199 setup, free for the first year, then £10/month thereafter. Continue reading ‘Startershop is out!’

Feeding Wordpress

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simonwheatley
2 years, 11 months ago
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The first round of enhancing the site is complete: my Last.FM journal articles and del.icio.us bookmarks are now republished here.
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Aha

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simonwheatley
2 years, 12 months ago
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Finally I get around to updating my site to use something more sophisticated than hand written HTML. It’s a start.

Things that were on the left are (probably) on the right now. Oh, apart from Dress-a-Doll which gets it’s own link above.

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