One of MySQL’s biggest annoyances is the lack of descriptive error messages. Often when dropping a table, index, foreign key you get a cryptic “errno 150 or errno152″ error message.

Well, now when you come across those simply go to the command line and type:

show engine innodb status;

Scroll up a ways and see a very helpful message about exactly which other foreign key or index is causing the blockage! Why can’t MySQL put this information into error message to begin with??

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OpenMRS Header Changed
- 12 Apr 2009 -

Darius recently removed the patient set portlet that was unused in the default header. If you have a custom template/headerFull.jsp you will need to remove the content of the “popupTray” element. This effects versions 1.5.0 dev Build 7290. The full changeset.

If you don’t remove that, the error message you get is something like this:

The following error happened somewhere on this page: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: You must specify a fromAttribute when using the patientSet portlet

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Ferrari Photos
- 11 Apr 2009 -

In December Meghan and I visited my sister and her husband (Katie and Patrick Portner). Patrick has a friend that owns a Ferrari 360 Modena that he was lucky enough to borrow for the weekend. Patrick and I drove it on a nearby expressway. My limit was around 130 mph. The car was amazing though, it was hugging the road and zipping nicely no matter what speed I was going. :-)

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