Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

First time I’m Learning MySql at College

Well as you probably know already, I’m currently attending the second year of my Foundation Degree in Information Technology at Uni/College at the new Medway Building in Pembroke, Chatham and part of what we will study this year is MySql Databases and Server Side Scripting languages like PHP. Well anyway today we started to learn the basis of MySql from

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NerdTV

Well you may or may not of heard about NerdTV yet but they have just released their third show, basically NerdTV is a weekly online TV show that does a one hour interview with a key player in the Technology world like Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy or Apple computer inventor Steve Wozniak, I recommend you watch a couple of

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Channel 9 video of Kahuna

Channel 9 has finally posted the first video interview with the team developing the next-generation of Hotmail, code-named Kahuna, this video is nearly an hour long but it’s great as you get to see Kahuna in action and even better you get to actually see the guys who are developing it plus I think we can all agree that the

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Official screenshots of Microsoft’s Mail Beta

Ok so this is kind of old news from last month but I thought I’d post it because I haven’t posted anything about Microsoft Mail Beta (Codename Kahuna) on my blog yet and to be honest I posted it hoping that it might help me know more about Kahuna and get to know more about its developers and maybe find

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Opera’s web browser becomes ad free!

Opera’s web browser has now become a completely ad free browser after they announced they were removing the banners found within the browser and also removing the licensing fee. Why we’re going free Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing fee. Opera’s growth, due to tremendous worldwide customer support, has made today’s milestone an achievable