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Alternate SQL for your CMS?

Yesterday we mentioned SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine. Here’s today’s thought: Could you take Movable Type (or your CMS of choice) and make it use SQLite instead of MySQL? You could (in theory) then do all the SQL things without access to a MySQL database… It’s nothing I want to attempt to implement, but feel free to take the idea and run with it.

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Trouble in Print

Page count for recent issues of Internet World:

  • September 52
  • October 52
  • November 48
  • December 40

As someone involved in the publishing industry, this is a little disturbing…

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Wishes can come true

Spotted on a mailing list, where the author describes how to do something on a *nix based system:

I wish it was that easy under Windows.

Isn’t that the official Windows motto?

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SQLite

SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine and DBD::SQLite – Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver are a great combination for the perl hacker on your gift giving list this year. It seems like the perfect solution to those problems that don’t quite require MySQL or another RDBMS, but need more than flat files or dbm files…

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GnuPG

GnuPG for OS X 1.2.1 is now available. Which is good, since the last GPG update I attempted seemed to hose a few things in the process.