How to back out of a crappy install where you enter a wrong password in mysql and can't figure it out.

1. read /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. It will have the username and password of a valid mysql user.
2. Log into mysql with that user/pw.
3. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mysql-change-root-password/ trick:

4. use mysql;
   update user set password=PASSWORD("NEWPASSWORD") where User='root';
   flush privileges;
   quit;

5. Test your new password to regain cofidence in your own brain.

I have to give Steve Jobs' credit. Even when he comes to an exuberantly flawed and just plain wrong conclusion, he does so on a very direct, eloquent and practical manner. Here is where he goes wrong.

Tables are extremely robust. They absolutely lock a set of related blocks in a fixed topographic arrangement and you can use a lot of combinations of sizing methods (fixed, percent, ratio) easily.

here is a great example of tableless CSS biting you on the ass. When I zoomed back one level (ONE level! and clicked in my "news feed" box in Facebook the text field jumps all the way to the bottom of the page. On a smalller screen I might have not even figured out what happened -- it would look like a blank(ish) page.

I've been put to a task that requires digesting the execution of large sets of data over time. To respond to this challenge I have come up with a pattern that seems to be working I thought I'd pass it on, in case it benefits others with a similar chore.

Order of Execution

The steps I've taken can be broken in to a series of steps:

I was looking up Pith for an upcoming phone interview with SunRun and went to the pithmaster (son of pith?) Scott Adams. He does a great job of voicing the biggest problem with Solar (gaining prospect confidence that they are not pissing money away on green (as in inefficient) tech) -- but the creepy part is the ad.

I know things suck. Here are a few things to look forward to in 2010 that will hopefully give you a reason to take that shotgun out of your face and give the new year a shot.

I can't tell if there is a problem in Zend_Reflection or the underlying PHP_Reflection upon which it is based, but I used reflection to create actions in ZF, that is, to add a method to the controller class definition, and got a case of odd return doublings. That is, an extra line was spaced throughout the body text of the methods that already existed.

Okay, so I can't completely tell you due to NDA restrictions but when you develop....