Monthly Archives: December 2011

First install everything we’ll need. And that should do it. It’s really that easy. You can also run this and that will show all the running postgres processes running. After that you can do awesome things like create databases Good … Continue reading →

Happy new year! Enjoy the penguins!

It took me a little bit to figure this out and I couldn’t seem to find it anywhere else on the net, but if you want to check your Apple mail using a Linux mail client here are the settings … Continue reading →

WordPress appears to have given a gold star because my previous post was my 475th? Why does WordPress care? Do this really mean anything? Is there a page somewhere where I get to see my stars? Stupid wordpress.

I’m considering taking up the Vala language for pet projects. I just finished taking a course in Java and I’m ready to move on to something else. Anyone have any thoughts or comments on Vala? Good, bad?

It occurred to me today that what if I wanted to track my changes in Excel? I realize that probably sounds stupid, right? More so to me than anyone since 90% of my day job is Oracle programming. But a … Continue reading →

Lets pretend for a moment the following code compiles: The problem is when I actually use this code, if I encounter a NO_DATA_FOUND error the program still drops into the OTHERS exception block and catches the error. Why?? UPDATE: Having … Continue reading →