Lets examine the notion that SQLite can be a viable replacement for fopen(). To get your understanding, SQLite is an implementation of a database engine that is self contained, serverless, transactional and needs no configuration. On the Other hand fopen() is a function from the standard C library that opens a file for either reading and/or writing and returns a stream associated with that file.

MariaDB, is the MySQL forked database Server that uses the Maria storage engine as the default transactional and non-transactional storage engine. The Maria storage engine is no longer called “Maria” but is now called “Aria”. Any future versions of MariaDB will now ship with the default storage engine named “Aria”.

In this continuation from this article about fun things to do with Google Chrome, I continue to add more interactive and graphic intense applications that you can tinker with to experience more of what HTML5 canvass has to offer. These features are not only restricted to Google Chrome but can be experienced using other browsers like Opera, Firefox, Safari and all major browsers that support HTML5 and have fast JavaScript Engines.

The first official Beta release of the Blender 2.5x series free open source 3D content creation suite is out. This is a release that is for the most part feature complete but not quite there. By feature complete I mean the inclusions of features from the complete Blender 2.4x series. Here is an overview of what Blender 2.53 Beta Release has to offer.

The Numcrunch Arithmetic Calculator and its cousin the NumCrunchX05 C++ source code has been released. These calculators were written quite a few years back and are now available for download. I will not be offering support so the source code which uses the MFC framework will have to be used as is with bugs and all seeing I closed the books on these a few years back.

After a couple of years of coding experience with both Qt and MFC, I’d say I am pretty confident in my credibility in deciding which of these two C++ frameworks would be best to use to develop GUIs on Windows. MFC has been around on Windows much longer but does that make it have an edge over Qt? Well keep reading to find out

The word “Viable” in this case is relative. For hardcore Ubuntu and other Linux distro users, it is not beyond reach to envision a viable desktop in use with occasional visits to Google or the Ubuntu help pages. For Windows and Mac users, that will not make the cut. One thing for sure you have to admit Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS is a step up from Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10.

Over the past few months there has been a few heated debates over whether HTML5 is dead before its even born. There are even hotter debates about whether Adobe Flash is in the last days of its lifetime. There is plenty that could be said on this topic but today I am more into looking into the Pros and Cons of Adobe Flash vs HTML5 Video.

A simple answer to that question is, MySQL Workbench visual database design tool developed by MySQL which is a cross-platform. MySQL Workbench is the successor to DBDesigner4 and is available for Windows (XP, VISTA & 7), Linux and Mac OSX. It comes distributed in two Licensing options, which are Open Source and Standard Edition.

Here comes the third article in the SQLyog for MySQL series of articles. Today we will deal with the various ways you can insert data into a MySQL database or MariaDB database using SQLyog, which is a powerful MySQL manager and administration tool that can also be used to manage MariaDB database.