Yet another reason to not use IE — Smashing Magazine
This must be reason #84 at this point to use anything (even Opera) instead of IE…
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NTLM Proxies are the Devil’s spawn
how NTLM proxies were conceived
Big Numbers
Source: Big Numbers The easiest way to start a flamewar….
The Registration Test Results Netflix Never Expected
As a current long-time customer of Netflix (since way before they had streaming) I’ve found their movie selection lacking, almost as bad as HBO/Cinemax/Show...
The technical treadmill of software development
The natural state of a Developer How do I keep up with all of this? 70/20/10 rule
CareerBuilder listings used as Phishing platform
Researchers at Proofpoint recently discovered a Phishing campaign that originated from select job postings on CareerBuilder.
Determining Oracle Materialized View usage
We have some materialized views but are not sure they’re being used after index and schema changes were made to improve performance. Enable auditing: AUDIT...
Creating a new developer box
I was issued a new laptop, HP 840 G1, so needed to set up a proper development environment. The first time I set it up I manually downloaded and installed m...
Funny Oracle error message
Oracle has an “Early Adopter” version of SQL Developer, a tool I have “become accustomed to” at a prior job where they couldn’t/wouldn’t pay for developers t...
Quick graphic model of a DB
Found a quick way to generate a DB entity model diagram with Oracle’s SQL Developer. Here is a description of how to do it, but in short: Open up the Data ...
Two Hard Things…
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton Long a favorite saying of mine, one for which I ...
Learning experience with git push
TL;DR, #1: merges in all branches in a directory/local repo will be pushed regardless of the current branch when push is done, #2 use a new clone “every” tim...
Connecting to MS SQL Server with NTLM on Linux
A MS SQL Server instance can be configured to use NTLM authentication for connections so that it goes against Active Directory for authentication and authori...
The most unusual place you’ve written code
This piece asks about the most unusual place you’ve written code. My most unusual place was in PowerPoint at FL280 and in a Lincoln. I had an interview ass...
Injecting code via xsd into a jaxb object
Found a cool feature of jaxb/xjc, -Xinject-code. With example xsd from prior post, look for ‘ci’. The code should probably be wrapped in a CDATA element. [s...
Making a JAXB object extend a “real” class
Finally got the magic incantations correct to have a generated jaxb extend an existing class. http://confluence.highsource.org/display/J2B/Inheritance+plugi...
Idiom for generics on static methods
I always forget this idiom: [sourcecode language=”java”] public static Collection getFirstN(int numRecs, Collection records) { List rtn = new Ar...
Some Functional JQuery bits
Return a processed array, leaving underlying array unaltered var arr = Array.apply(null, Array(5)).map(function (_, i) {return i;}); var processedArr = $.ma...
Tiles in Javascript
Tried using Freewall, a small tiling library written in jquery. It looked nice in the demos and easy to incorporate but didn’t like tiles composed dynamic aj...
bureaucracy
Czar Of Bad Systems
After spending $200 on approvals and other bureaucracy to send a t-shirt to someone (acrophyal?), HootSuite CEO appoints a “Czar of Bad Systems”, Czar Noel,...
utils
Installing Synergy to share Windows and Linux
I haven’t used Synergy in…years, but it was mostly reliable when I did use it last.
personal-development
Words to Cut from Writing
just, perhaps, maybe that I think/I believe All adverbs and most adjectives really, very, seriously, … Don’t use big “two dolla...
blog
Rebooting Blog and Moving to Github Pages
I’m taking the plunge and finally finishing up moving this off of Dreamhost and onto Github pages. It’s been “staged” on github for a while now, finally all...