I'm ashamed to admit that Mimesis v2.15 and many of the versions before were all broken and error prone. The worst part is I was blissfully ignorant of the problem. The breakdown of the code is as follows:

Mimesis files are essentially commented PHP files.
All Mimesis files thusly begin with <?php /* (open comment) and terminate with...

The reading (albeit limited) I've been doing on key-value stores has prompted an idea to restructure my Mimesis databases. One of the things that I recall being asked about was if Mimesis supported column insertion and deletions. Currently it does not do so elegantly without a complete database rewrite.

Mimesis currently stores everything as...

: sigh : Found another bug in the code. Happened to stumble on it while thinking of another way to code the getRow method of the Mimesis class. Turned out the refresh method was altering an integer that represents the next offset into the data file. This of course could ruin your data if when you refreshed your table and tried to insert more data...

This entry comes about as I was studying the algorithmic working of a perpetual calendar for programming purposes. On reading the relevant wikipedia article on perpetual calendars, I came to realize from this photo...

As I've not been struck with any new ideas for my Mimesis ffdb, I think I'm going to start anew my GrimBB project. However, I'm redoing it from the ground up. Just the bare bones essentials of what a bulletin board (tailored to my particular requirements) needs.

In thinking about this I've come up with a hierarchy organization as...

I think this is probably my lamest update of Mimesis to date. That doesn't dissuade me from blogging about it though.

Mimesis makes use of a locking mechanism to prevent overwrites of data. It does this by creating a file. This file contains a number inside of it, specifically a Unix timestamp. The timestamp denotes a time taken from the...

So, I pulled another piratey move and completely reworked the Mimesis system. Yeah, I know its getting old already; can't be helped. For whatever reason I keep coming up with "improvements". Just so happens I may have broken some stuff along the way, but I'm not going to dwell so neither should you.

What am I doing differently?...