February 16, 2009
Back in 2007 I wrote about CocoaMySQL, a small GUI for MySQL that allows you to manipulate and manage MySQL databases through a native Cocoa application. Since then development of CocoaMySQL died off and it has since been abandoned. A shame really as it did have several frustrating quirks that spoiled an otherwise great application.
Recently I came across Sequel Pro, a fork of CocoaMySQL that has big plans to stabilise the core code and turn it into a multi-engine database management tool (with support for SQLite and PostgresSQL scheduled for the future). Despite being available since early 2008 I’ve seen very little mention of Sequel Pro.
In terms of functionality Sequel Pro seems to be an almost exact match for CocoaMySQL, only with a smarter interface and less annoying quirks. The account management is still inconsistent, and lengthy operations still lock the interface up, but otherwise it’s a good step in the right direction and has already replaced CocoaMySQL as my SQL tool of choice.
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February 13, 2009
HeadSpace has had a meta-robots module for some time. This module allows you to set various options on a page-by-page basis that determine how search engines (and other bots) process the data on that page. This is fine in general, but sometimes it's necessary to have a little more control, and to this end I've created a new module that let's you change the follow/nofollow attribute of certain links.
First it's worth explaining what nofollow does. Nofollow is a tag that was invented by Google to allow website owners to prevent a link from affecting it's target site's search ranking - the link is not followed. In effect this gives you some control over how search engines index your site. The tag itself is very simple:
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February 12, 2009
If you make use of any of my plugins then it's likely you've noticed several fundamental changes, along with some tougher system requirements. I think now is a good time to actually write about these changes and discuss the reasons behind them.
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February 11, 2009
Yes, this is one of those late-late February New Year round-ups! And what a year it's been in general. Moving back to the 'real world' (aka London) has now come and gone, and I'm safely wrapped up in trying to stay ahead of the world's general downward curve.
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