Larry Ullman

Translating Geek Into English

What is Larry Thinking? #5 => Introducing Adobe AIR

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First, my thanks, as always, to those that provided feedback on the previous newsletters. Your comments really help to make this newsletter useful. Please keep your questions and suggestions coming.

As always, older newsletters are available online and you can also use the corresponding forum to start any discussions.

My apologies for the delay in getting this one out. It’s been over five weeks since the last edition. The delay is in part because I’ve been burning the midnight oil writing the third edition of my “PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide”. Secondarily, I knew I’d be receiving my copies of my most recent release–“Building a Web Site with Ajax: Visual QuickProject”–and I wanted to give those away.

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What is Larry Thinking? #4 => Finding a Good Web Host

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About this Newsletter

Thanks, as always, to those that provided feedback on the previous newsletters. Your comments really help to make this newsletter useful. Please keep your questions and suggestions coming.

As always, older newsletters are available online and you can also use the corresponding forum to start any discussions.

The primary focus in this edition of the newsletter is on a singular topic: Web hosting. It’s not something I formally discuss in any book so I’m putting together all of my current thoughts here. In the next newsletter I plan on addressing creating true desktop applications, using C, C++, or the new Adobe AIR (I’ve been meaning to write about AIR for some time now). In response to my last newsletter, I did get some comments from Mac OS X users and will put together a mini newsletter just for them one of these days.

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What is Larry Thinking? #3 => The End of PHP 4 & Spam, Spam, Spam

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About this Newsletter

Thanks to those that provided feedback on the previous two newsletters. Your comments really help to make this newsletter useful. Please keep your questions and suggestions coming.

As always, older newsletters are available online and you can also use the corresponding forum to start any discussions.

Some people said the last newsletter was too long and some thought it was fine. I thought it was too long, myself. This one is going to be a bit shorter, just because… My apologies, as well, for how long it’s been since the last one (nearly a month). I’ve been juggling many different projects, including a kitchen remodel, with very little success.

For the next newsletter, I’m going to write up some thoughts on finding good Web hosting, as I’m about to change my host for the nth time. If there’s enough interest, I might discuss some Mac OS X applications that I live and die with, but I’m not sure how many of you are using Mac OS X (statistically, it’s like 5% worldwide).

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What is Larry Thinking? #2 => Creating a Successful Web Site, Part 2

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First, my apologies for the search and replace snafu in the first newsletter. Quite embarrassing. As a couple of you had surmised, I did a massive search and replace but failed to proof the result before sending it out (d’oh!). I was trying to figure out how the mailing list software turns the HTML version I provide into the plain text version some people choose to receive. So I started by using the STRONG tags, then replaced those with EM, and then replaced those with B. The B tags worked for the mailing list but turned “email” into “bail” and “system” into “systb”. Did I mention “d’oh”? Of course, what would have worked (besides proofreading again) would have been to search for EM>, which would have caught the opening and closing tags but nothing else.

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What is Larry Thinking? #1 => Introduction to the Newsletter, Creating a Successful Web Site

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This is the first edition of my first (and only) newsletter. I should have started a newsletter/mailing list years ago but you know how things go sometime (the number of itbs on my TODO list that never get done is frightening). Anyway, my thanks to you for your interest in what I have to say. I sincerely hope that this newsletter will be useful and interesting for you; something you actually read, or at least peruse, before sending it along to that great electronic trash bin in the sky. Towards that end, the bulk of each newsletter will be things I’ve seen/learned/discovered that never made it into a book or are just more topical. For example, if you do PHP development, you might be interested in this Web site or in this application or you should read this interview. Stuff like that. The newsletters will also handle all the book giveaways (more on that below), provide updates on my existing and forthcoming books, and will have the occasional article written specifically for the newsletter (the first part of one is below).

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MySQL Java Driver

As these things happen in the publishing industry, approximately two days after sending MySQL: Visual QuickStart Guide to the printer, MySQL announced the new Java driver for working with a MySQL database. It seems that Mark Matthews, who created the MM.MySQL driver described in the book, now works for MySQL AB. The new driver is called “MySQL Connector/J”. You can find more information about Connector/J at http://www.mysql.com/products/connector/j/.