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Ode to Oracle RDBMS

May 1, 2008

Oh Oracle, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: -1, -2, -3..

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron First Impressions

April 28, 2008

The Good: Network Driver My e1000 onboard network hardware was autodetected, unlike any previous Ubuntu releases. Up to now I had been using a 3com 3c59x card I borrowed from a sysadmin down the hall. Now I can give it back. Yes, I'm aware I could have compiled a new kernel. Honestly I think my days of building kernels are pretty much over. I'm more int...

Zend Framework, "Web 2.0 Framework" My Ass!

April 27, 2008

Motivation digg_url = 'http://digg.com/programming/Web_2_0_Framework_My_Ass'; I am writing this to inform web developers of my experience with Zend Framework so they can choose wisely when shopping for a MVC "framework" to use with their next "big project". I feel Zend Framework is a lost cause and a complete waste of time to learn and to use. I hope to help other ...

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Only creationists don't understand why people laugh at creationists..

April 23, 2008

Clearly one of the best rebuttals I've heard up to now:

Ruby on Rails HTML link helper

April 20, 2008

Sometimes you might want to link up any html links from a string of text: def make_links ( str ) regex = Regexp . new ' (https?:\/\/([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(\/([\w\/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?) ' str . gsub ( regex , ' <a href="\1">\1</a> ' ) end

Earthquake at 4:37am

April 18, 2008

There's nothing quite like being woken up, thinking you're about to die.. Early this morning I woke to the sound of rattling windows, doors, and furniture next to walls. A few seconds later (an eternity at 4:37am) the rattle became a really intense shake just before it stopped completely. In 35 years of living in or near Nashville, TN, I don't recall ever having any eart...

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Christopher Hitchens Recommended Books

April 9, 2008

This is a pretty good list I have to say: http://www.buildupthatwall.com/recommended.html Enjoy! (or not)

Oracle's Silly Sequence Cache

April 9, 2008

The more I use Oracle the more I appreciate the lightweight nature of MySQL and even PostgreSQL for that matter. Right tool for the right job I guess :) My latest Oracle issue seemed fairly odd at first. The issue was that I needed sequential numbers from my sequence, but Oracle was giving them to me in what seemed to be blocks of 20 at a time. Instead of 1.. 2.. 3.. 4, it...

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Two Rivers Ford in Nashville, TN are crooks

April 5, 2008

Last week I called Two Rivers Ford Service Center to find out how much my 30K mile service would be. I knew it wasn't going to be cheap but I needed to get it done. The guy I spoke with asked me the make and model and I told him. He quoted me a price of $349.95 + tax. I said thanks and hung up the phone. I calculated the sales tax and found I needed to budget about $385 for th...

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Microsoft Windows 7 Exclusive Rebuttal

April 4, 2008

I came across this article today: http://thebetaguy.com/exclusives/?postid=1029344029... This guy doesn't understand, when he says: Competitors complained that offering internet and media solutions with the operating system harmed competition in the marketplace (despite other operating systems such as Mac OS X and Linux apparently being immune from such critic...

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