In one of my latest postings I mentioned a way to create semi materialized views in MySQL. The problem was that the solution required a stored procedure for every materialized view. That’s very annoying. So I looked for a more general and dynamic approach. The result is another stored procedure with 3 parameters:

the name for [...]

With some inspiration from Ben Ramsey i created a little demo for using my md5 database during the signup process on a website.
This example demonstrates the use of the MD5 database at http://md5.rednoize.com and AJAX to check password strength during signup on a website. After supplying a username and a password, a md5 hash of [...]

Hamachi is a piece of software that belongs to the very rare category “Double-click to install and it works”. If you ever wanted to build a “private” VPN, take Hamachi into consideration.
“Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. It is also free.” The client is available for Windows and Linux.
The Hamachi website describes how it works:
“Hamachi [...]