Full Speed

[ May 24, 2006 ]

Electrons and Leptons, Meters and Liters

Google Reader is down at the moment, and because I enjoy the various web outage screens, here’s Reader’s.

[ May 21, 2006 ]

links for 2006-05-21

Camping, a Microframework

“a little white blood cell in the vein of Rails”

(tags: webdev web programming rails rubyonrails framework)

There’s a new Related Entries feature here at Full Speed today, courtesy of Adam Kalsey. You can see it in action below. It’s a quick, simple hack that uses MySQL’s fulltext queries and Brad Choate’s eternally useful MTSQL plugin. For the sake of documenting the way things work on this site, I will document the basic steps here.

1) Add a fulltext index to the mt_entry table:
ALTER TABLE mt_entry ADD FULLTEXT ( entry_keywords, entry_title, entry_excerpt );
2) Add the query to the individual entry archive template in MT:

<MTSQLEntries query="
   SELECT entry_id, MATCH (entry_keywords, entry_title, entry_excerpt)
      AGAINST ('[MTEntryKeywords encode_php='q'] [MTEntryTitle encode_php='q']')
      AS score
   FROM mt_entry
   WHERE MATCH (entry_keywords, entry_title, entry_excerpt)
      AGAINST ('[MTEntryKeywords encode_php='q'] [MTEntryTitle encode_php='q']')
      AND entry_id != '[MTEntryID]'
   AND entry_blog_id = [MTBlogID]
      ORDER BY score DESC
      LIMIT 0 , 4"><li><a href="<MTEntryLink>">
<MTEntryTitle></a></li></MTSQLEntries>

[ May 13, 2006 ]

Schneier on NSA Wiretapping

This is the line that’s done best for me on the radio: “The NSA would like to remind everyone to call their mothers this Sunday. They need to calibrate their system.”
Bruce Schneier

[ May 12, 2006 ]

links for 2006-05-12

Airline Pilot Central - FedEx arrivals during Thunderstorms

“Time lapse radar track of FedEx aircraft arriving into the Memphis hub during area thunderstorms.”

(tags: flying video fedex)