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Big Numbers

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Source: Big Numbers The easiest way to start a flamewar….

Determining Oracle Materialized View usage

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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

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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

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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

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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…

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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

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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...

The most unusual place you’ve written code

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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

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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...

Idiom for generics on static methods

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I always forget this idiom: [sourcecode language=”java”] public static Collection getFirstN(int numRecs, Collection records) { List rtn = new Ar...

Some Functional JQuery bits

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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

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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...

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bureaucracy

Czar Of Bad Systems

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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,...

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personal-development

Words to Cut from Writing

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just, perhaps, maybe that I think/I believe All adverbs and most adjectives really, very, seriously, … Don’t use big “two dolla...

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blog

Rebooting Blog and Moving to Github Pages

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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...

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