Dave Thielen, CEO of Windward Reports and author of the excellent books "No Bugs!" and "12 Simple Secrets of Microsoft Management" has posted a very funny video on his web site called "Cubicle Wars" which is presumably what programmers focus on when they save so much time using his reporting tool.
I thought it was very clever way to show how Windward Reports saves people time. (Disclaimer, no Windward Reports is not open …
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"This email already isn't using, as far as something of
necessity you have need of, so hypotenuse Your enamel on my new
email address: ..."
/me sighs
About six months ago, on the recommendation of my accountants, I bought an accounting system, Mind Your Own Business. It runs under Microsoft, and I find it painful in the extreme. In the end, I decided not to use it.
On the other hand, what I was using before doesn't really cut it: as a died-in-the-wool UNIX man, I used a set of home-grown awk scripts to manipulate records which look like this:
TA#20060129#4##(2) Transfer in Brisbane M#20060129#15.95##(3) Dinner A#20060129#25##(4) Departure tax##NZD#0.928 M#20060129#41##(5) Lunch (Arjen, Grog)##NZD#0.928 M#20060128#25.95##(6) Dinner##NZD#0.928 M#20060126#9.5##(8) Lunch##NZD#0.928
UNIX people will recognize “intuitively” that these records consist of fields separated by a hash mark, # (and not a pound sign, £, which would be very …
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A recent question in a newsgroup was
Given this table in MySQL 4.0, how can I run a single query to
sort the records by the number of pipes in myfield?
id(int) -------- myfield(varchar)
1 --------- |number1|number2|
2 --------- |number1|
3 --------- |number1|number2|number3|
4 --------- |number1|number2|number3|number4|
Suppressing my urge to say something about the data structure, I
suggested this clever solution from a test sample I deduced from
the request:
select * from mytable;
+----+-------------------+
| id | myfield |
+----+-------------------+
| 1 | 10|1|12|9 |
| 2 | 1|2 |
| 3 | 19|5|59|91 |
| 4 | 111|31|10|1|12|9 |
| 5 | 1|2|7 |
| 6 | 95|59|91 |
| 7 | 123456789|2000000 |
+----+-------------------+
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Since I started using PHP 5.x.x I started to experience incorrect time reported back through PHP using for example date(). I checked phpinfo() and found out that the default timezone was detected as America/Chicago. This was not the case as the server was configured for Canada/Saskatchewan (CST). I found out that I ended up having to directly set my timezone in php.ini file. I put the following in my php.ini file, then restarted Apache and the problem was resolved.
date.timezone = “Canada/Saskatchewan”
I’m not sure if this is a bug in PHP not detecting the timezone correctly. I tried searching through known …
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At an OSCON panel yesterday, there was a really interesting conversation between Danese Cooper and Dain Sundstrom. We were talking about what happens when money arrives at an open source project (either in the form of corporate sponsors or commercialization of the project itself.)
Mitchell Baker pointed out how hard it was for AOL to understand that she was still the project leader when they laid her off from Netscape. It took a concerted effort by the remaining Netscape developers to help them realize that she was still their leader, despite AOL's new organizational plans. I had been …
[Read more]Earlier this week I delivered a presentation at OSCON 2006 entitled "Making Sales While Making Friends: Lessons Learned from Open Source Businesses." I've been involved with commercial open source since 1998, and have learned a lot over the years (including how to fail spectacularly and slightly more gracefully). I'm in the middle of a string of successes, though, and figured now was the time to pretend to know-it-all. You can view my OSCON 2006 presentation here. It was an extension of some JBoss analysis I did recently, as well as an attempt to pass on some of the lessons I've learned so that the next round of open source …
[Read more]Damian Conway is giving the funniest public flogging I have ever seen. He is single-handedly kicking the ass of Web 2.0, Sxip, patents, patent vulture firms, snake oil crypto, Microsoft, Google, r0ml and all the rest of us all at the same time.
Great quotes include:
I sure hope that O’Reilly recorded this session.
Update 1
I just registered cxap.{biz,net,org} - now to go ask Damian what he would …
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Since it is two weeks ago since my last post, I thought it would
be a good idea to give a quick update on the development
status.
At present, I've tackled all include and linking problems I faced
(C++ is rather new to me). The insertion interface is ready, and
the API for clients and sensors is near completion.
Last things remaining are the selection interface, an example
client and an example sensor.
In a couple of days I hope to publish a package containing the
first version.
Blog: http://sqlbusrt.blogspot.com/
Project website: http://sqlbusrt.sourceforge.net/
This is the first in a series of articles I?ll write on how to use innotop, the MySQL and InnoDB monitor I?m developing. This article explains how to install innotop.