My friends at Alriyadh Newspaper published my son news on todays issue:
Abdullah Alrashed
Thank you guys 🙂

After installing PostgreSQL (15 minutes job), and playing with pgAdminIII, I decided to try it with PHP.

Last weekend I decided to try PostgreSQL on Windows, I download PostgreSQL 8.1 installation file from PostgreSQL website, it was 22Mg zip file.

I also downloaded the 12 Mg manual, which contains everything about Postgres.

The installation is straight forward, simple wizard with some clicks and everything is installed and Postgres is running.

Postgres comes with two clients:

• psql: CLI (command line) client.
• pgAdminIII: graphical client.

pgAdmin (see the screen shot) looks amazing and gives you access to all parts of the database, and you can connect to multiple databases. I got intimidated at first when I saw all the options in pgAdminIII but after looking carefully at them it isn’t that scary 🙂

Saudi NIC the organization responsible for registering “.sa” domains updated their website, the new design very clean and fresh. Congratulation.

Registering under “.sa” is free, and you can get good names too, so if you have a company please go and register (it is easy).

They also register Arabic domain names.

ISU blocked Flickr for the third time in less than a year, I HATE YOU ISU.

Please help me to unblock Flickr by filing URL unblocking request.

The importance of flickr is that thousands of weblogs and personal websites host their image at flickr, so by blocking flickr they blocked all images from all of these weblogs.

I am not a “speeling bee champion” -the previous sentence proves it 🙂 -, and I usually don’t care about spelling mistakes of others, but some spelling mistakes drive me crazy.

One of the most common in Arabic is:
لاكن
This is wrong, if you write it like this please stop, it is written:
لكن

I hope Google would support Arabic in their toolbar spell checker.

P.S: If you noticed any spelling mistakes in any of my post please let me know.
P.S: I used to write “great” as “grate” for many many years, but thanks to my friend “Fayez Alazmi” who corrected me one day I don’t write “grate” that often any more 🙂 .

PostgreSQL (Wikipedia) 8.1 released, check What’s new in 8.1 document.

For some reason I love PostgreSQL althought I never really used it before, I am very happy with MySQL but I really would love to use PostgreSQL, for me MySQL excel in 3 areas:

• PHPMyAdmin: I can’t live without it, I know PostgreSQL have phppgadmin, but I don’t think it would match PHPMyAdmin.
• Windows port: I remember they ported PostgreSQL to Windows, a while ago but I never tried it either, I guess I am lazy.
• Replication: I am not sure about the status of replication in PostgreSQL, am I lazy or what.

Alriyadh.com introduced new style to display comments, see the Sample Article

The new style uses CSS instead of tables, which make it much smaller and cleaner.

A link to each comment is also added -the time of the post- to allow bookmarking and sending URLs to specific comment.

The posting form is now viewed in the same page, it is hidden by default but after clicking “Post Comment” it will appear thank to the power of Javascript.

Nice Dilbert strip (click to enlarge):

This is an experimental page that shows the articles with most comments:
http://www.alriyadh.com/php/comments/comments_top.php

Hopefully it will find it self in the front page shortly, I don’t where should we put it, the front page is little crowded as is.