Author: Ryan Neudorf
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Canadian Tech Roundup Going Strong
The podcast that I do along with Trevor Percy is better than ever. If you’re not subscribed you should check it out. We talk tech with a uniquely Canadian voice. Episodes out more or less weekly. The Website is here. Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes here. Also follow us on Twitter.
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Siri Can’t Map Canada
My desk neighbour showed up to work this morning with a brand new iPhone 4S. He let me play around with Siri a bit. Looks like Siri is not fully functional in Canada. Referencing location (eg. “Where am I?”) results in an error message stating that directions and maps are unavailable in Canada. Update: Now with…
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MySQL Full-Text Search Is Broken!
…and has been for 8 years. I came across MySQL bug #2095 today: full-text search for words containing hyphens won’t work Submitted: 11 Dec 2003 6:15 Hyphen ‘-‘ characters break literals at the moment. A search for something like “GATA-D22S690” finds all entries containing GATA and not the full hyphenated text. ~ Link MySQL disputes…