Johari and Nohari windows

Following along with the crowd I've started a Johari and Nohari window. You can find them at:

LilFluff's Johari Window

LilFluff's Nohari Window

In case you've been stuck in an elevator for the past week or so, these are personality tests wherein a person picks 5-6 adjectives to describe themselves, and then have others also pick 5-6 adjectives to describe them. The interesting thing is to look for where the lists overlap and where they differ.

SQLite is nifty

If you've spent any time wanting to play around with programming involving in SQL database, take a look at SQLite. A database engine so compact that the driver is the engine. Where MySQL's download is measured in megabytes, SQLite's is measured in kilobytes.

And despite that it's still quite useful. Decent SQL support, triggers, transactions, and other nifty stuff. It's included as a start feature in PHP 5.0, is supported in Perl, Python, C, Java, multiple DLL's to use it from Visual Basic, there's an ODBC driver to let any program that talks ODBC use it (again, the engine is embedded into the drivers) Ruby, and plenty of languages from Ada to Tcl/Tk.

Over the course of an hour I whipped together a set of perl programs that created a database, put a few entries in, and then viewed them. Which included time refreshing my limited perl skills.

Nifty.