Brian recently posted an article comparing UUID and auto_increment primary keys, basically advertising to use UUID instead of primary keys. I wanted to clarify this a bit as I’ve seen it being problems in so many cases. First lets look at the benchmark – we do not have full schema specified in the article itself [...]
Mail clients and Databases
I get a lot of mail and I prefer to store it for long time if not forever. With modern hard disk sizes it should not be problem at all, but because of how mailing programs are written it causes a lot of problems. I’ve tried a lot of programs – Kmail, Evolution, Thunderbird on [...]

