Monthly Archives: December 2008

Simple SQL Tips

1.) Don’t commit after every update statement 2.) Don’t commit once for every update statement Both of those are really meant torwards updates that come in large groups. For example I dropped over 4000 rows out of database at work … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Enjoy the Penguins!

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Mad GNU Women

I just saw a headline on LXER that reads: Debian women may leave due to ‘sexist’ post Truth be told here, in my opinion, any project that has to have a special team just for women already has much deeper … Continue reading

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Programming Books

The problem I find with programming books like 90% of the education texts out there is that they are so dry. As a mathematics and history major in college no one understands dry reading better than I. Between those two … Continue reading

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Some good reading

Its not often I find decent computer things to read on the internet but since I have found something nice to read I will share it. Its entitled, The Problem With Threads. That link is a direct link to the … Continue reading

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OpenRC

I recently read a post on Planet Larry about someone trying out OpenRC. Does anyone else know anything about it? I’m curious and would love to try it, especially if it really is “better.” But on the same hand I … Continue reading

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Oh boy!

Well, I finally Gentoo installed again and half way configured. I’m running AMD64 with Fluxbox and Awesome and I’m logging in through SLiM. If you goto the Gentoo Wiki I wrote the whole page on SLiM so if you need … Continue reading

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Google Docs API

Well, it basically sucks. So never mind. Enjoy the Penguins!

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Vim Plugins

I’ve never written by own Vim plugin but I spent the past couple of days hacking other peoples to see if I could get them to do things they weren’t intended to do. Well, the good news it did what … Continue reading

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Vim Update + Perl Hate

First, I’ve updated my vim scripts again. Please don’t ask me what changed. I don’t know and I don’t keep them in a git repository. Personally, I think me opening up a free account at like say GitHub just for … Continue reading

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