It is pretty obvious that the developers of the Internet Movie Script Database have taken lots of inspiration from the Internet Movie Database IMDB. The website offers movie scripts that can be viewed online or downloaded as txt files to a local computer system or mobile device.
It is possible to search the database or browse [...]
The Internet Movie Script Database IMSDb
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Apr 9th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Set up MySQL database replication
If you use databases then you know how important it is to back them up. But backing up a database and being able to use that backup depends upon the back up being always up to date. There is a method that ensures you will always have an up to date backup. That method is [...]
Backup MySQL Databases In Linux Regularly
The post Using Cron to Automate Linux Tasks by Jack got me thinking that some users might be interested in a practical example. The following tutorial will explain how to setup a small script to backup MySQL databases on a Linux server which will be run daily using a cron job. The best way to [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Dec 20th, 2008
- Comments: 4
Install phpmyadmin for easy MySQL administration
I have been working with LAMP (Linux Apache, MySQL, PHP) servers for a long time. But not matter how much experience I have with them one of the first things I, do after the LAMP installation, is to install phpMyAdmin. This tool makes database administration so much easier than the command line. And when your [...]
Have WordPress back-ups emailed
We are always told how important it is to back-up our blog, in case it is hacked, which does actually happen. My personal blog, Webby’s World, I am ashamed to admit, has been hacked a few times.
Backing up seems somewhat of a chore and whilst a cron job can be set up, a WordPress plug-in [...]
SoundUnwound, New Music Database
Whenever I want to discover some new music these days I got to 1 of 3 places; Amazon, Wikipedia and Last.FM, in that order. Amazon has got perhaps the most useful database of user reviews on the web. Eg, most of them are actually half-coherent.
Amazon also shows associated artists which are useful because once you [...]
Install Wikipedia Locally
I theoretically mentioned the fact that it was possible, and in fact quite easy, to install Wikipedia locally which has several advantages but also one disadvantage. Advantages should be clear; You do not need a net connection to access the Wikipedia contents, you can distribute the solution to as many computers as you want and you can make it available in a local area network.
