January 2011
1 post
WatchAwesome post about how Twitter analyzes data in real time.
December 2010
1 post
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Sharding →
I’ve setting up a chef recipe to enable sharding for a mongodb I’ve been working on.
June 2010
1 post
Just did my head in trying to grok the ramifications of installing a JRubyOnRails app on a Windows Machine where SHIFT-JIS is the default encoding. This may not be a problem in general, but the app calls external executables regularly.
May 2010
2 posts
“The longer I’m in this profession of lecturing and writing, the more I worry...”
– Scott Berkun, How to call bullshit on a guru
“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– Why the Lucky Stiff
February 2010
6 posts
Less twitter more tumblr
Recently I’ve been using a lot less twitter. Perhaps it’s just that I tend to be very verbose, but I struggle to put anything meaningful into 140 characters. Links to my blog posts are all well and good, but I’ve never been able to get on board with the torrent of retweets and mass link spamming.
Tumblr has an interface that allows me to post items that are longer than a tweet...
I Don’t Get It →
I know I’ve been both frustrated by this and guilty of this in the past. There is a high barrier to entry when contributing patches to a given piece of software.
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Copy the structure but not the data.
I’m working on a prototype at the moment that requires me to insert data into offline tables (offline as far as Documentum is concerned). The examples that I’ve found all resort to specifying the exact structure of the table.
create table DMI_OBJECT_TYPEx (
R_OBJECT_ID VARCHAR2(16) NOT NULL,
I_TYPE NUMBER(10,0) NOT NULL,
I_PARTITION NUMBER(10,0) NULL);
The example above is...
The Building Blocks of Ruby « Katz Got Your... →
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Multi-tasking the presentation away.
(If you’re not technical don’t bother reading this)
I’m sitting in a presentation about a couple of new(ish) Documentum products. I’m streaming my thoughts while my colleague Andrew shows off ‘My Documentum for Outlook’ and ‘My Documentum Offline’.
Because I know that there are going to be people that will see this and wonder what Documentum is,...