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A beautiful bit of code.

Really just popping this up so that I remember the location of this SUPERB bit of JavaScript.

Here’s the code

So… having built a pretty dandy benchmarking engine, how do we make it easy for other people to consume it? Blathering away over a triple-grande-caramel-machiato-with-enough-extra-caramel-to-kill-a-dog, I happened to mention to Jonathan, that we could create a google gadget interface to the application… Naturally, this statement ended with “How hard could that be?”

Well, I’m in the process of finding out…

As it happens, I’m off to a great start – Thanks to this – an utterly superb intro to gadget writing.

If you’re at all gadget curious, I’d recommend the seoish tutorial… it rocks.

Rapture! I’ve just used the MySQL Migration Toolkit to move a cranky 30,000 record access DB into MySQL. And it worked a dream.

I can’t get over how good it was.

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