You are using MySQL Cluster and crazy enough to digest NDB API? Sick of SQL? Here’s a treat: a function to make C/C++ strings ready for inserting into a VARCHAR field. The special thing about them is that the length is prefixed in the first 2 bytes. void make_ndb_varchar(char *buffer, char *str) { int len = strlen(str); int hlen = (len > 255) ? 2 : 1; buffer[0] = len & 0xff; if( len > 255 ) buffer[1] = (len / 256); strcpy(buffer+hlen, str); } Yes, you can use memcpy.

Day in, day out, I speak, read, write, love, in English. My mother tongue, however, is Dutch (not Flemish spit). Today, I was finalizing the handwritten letter to my grandmother and reading up a message from my sister, I came up with a new Dutch word. Oh, it might already exist, but Google doesn’t know about it yet (unless for the typos). avonkuren: avonturen + kuren .. doing crazy stuff while going through life

You’ve see them, those product/website names meaning nothing but making millions. Names which seem to come from stupid teenagers writing short messages on their phones.. Today I figured out a possible reason why we have such names. I’m brainstorming a new project and came up with a good name to brand it. The problem? Assholes have parked any combination of the name for most top domains out there. There you go: a good idea down the drain.

Vacation, and the mind is free. Then I scribble something, unleash it upon Earth where only a handful might read it: Stop for a moment And watch around Hush for a second And hear the sound Think of your past step And watch the road ahead Pick up a fight And try to flight Break your habits Stop living by one’s wits Take another curve And make some surf

Since a few decades, humanity got more and more cursed and/or blessed with a little device now fitting perfectly in a trousers’ pocket or womon’s purse. But how do you call it these days? Here are some possibilities which crossed my mind: Mobile GSM Handy (German) iPhone MP3 player Walkman PDA Alarm some kind of berry Book .. or.. Phone? I just read my first book using Amazon Kindle on my iPhone.