Simon Willison’s Weblog

Drizzle, Clouds, “What If?”. Exciting news in the world of MySQL: Drizzle is a new project to produce a massively stripped down version of the database server—InnoDB/UTF8 only, no permissions, views, stored procedures or triggers, simplified field types, optimised for the common subset of functionality used by web apps. MySQL’s Firefox?

# 23rd July 2008, 12:30 am / mysql, databases, innodb, utf8, drizzle

Unicode code converter (via) Richard Ishida’s tool for converting pretty much any unicode representation to any other.

# 28th October 2007, 6:26 pm / unicode, richard-ishida, conversion, utf8