Things I've Done

Month: May 2006

  • Linking Access to a MySQL database

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    For some time I was using Access to store and manage some simple data for a web site. Unfortunately, due to a change in hosting provider I was not able to continue using the Access database and had to migrate it to MySQL. One thing I wanted was to keep the Access forms I’d created…

  • Ken Grimwood – Replay

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    I’ve just finished reading a fantastic book, ‘Replay’, by Ken Grimwood. The book was the winner of the World Fantasy Award in 1988 and the copy I picked up is part of the Orion Books/Gollancz series called “Fantasy Masterworks“. The text on the back of the book reads: Jeff Winston was forty-three and trapped in…

  • Part 3 – Making the Oak beam coffee table

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    You’ve read articles 1 and 2 in this series and you feel you’re ready to have a go at the work. Well, you’ll be pleased to know its actually quite easy. The most complicated part is planing the rough wood and ending up with a nice flat surface, so how hard can it be?

  • Part 2 – The things you’ll need to make an Oak beam coffee table

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    Early in 2005 we saw one of these in Guildford. Quite liking the design but unwilling to pay the price we decided not to buy it. After some pondering I decided that I’d like to have a go at making my own and given that I had a lot of the equipment necessary I knew…