Hey that’s pretty good. You fired those off in no time. I had to think about mine for a few days. Remind me never to ask you to cook.
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Dec 31
Five things people don’t know about me
Andrew tagged me, so I am obligated (read: bored enough) to list five things people don’t know about me:
I helped cook “breakfast” in my high school stained glass class with a soldering iron. Yes, burnt cheese and starbursts are acquired smells
I led KingCo in tackles my senior year
I made a teacher call me Bob [...]
Dec 28
Comment on Oracle has no autoincrement by: Jeff
This gives a good overview: http://jen.fluxcapacitor.net/geek/autoincr.html
Dec 28
ctags on OS X
A good tags file is essential when developing with emacs. My tags setup (see Adam’s dot files) didn’t work out of the box on my Mac. It turns out that the included ctags is ancient. The simple fix is to install a newer version of ctags with Darwin Ports.
sudo port install ctags
Dec 28
Comment on Oracle has no autoincrement by: kusampudi
when i am trying to migrate my db from mysql to oracle i am facing the problem if a particular table is having autoincrement so can i know what is the syntax for autoincrement in oracle while creating table
Dec 13
Comment on MozEx plugin for Firefox by: Orlando
What I want to do on my blog, is every few hours take the oldest post and move it to the
front of the queue, all automatically. Anyone know if there is a plugin that can do this or
a simple way to set up another plugin to do this (use my own feed perhaps)?
Thanks.
Dec 05
Comment on Quiz: Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character by: Alec
I just watched the Cartoon Network Clone War series, I was really impressed, what do other people think?
Dec 02
Comment on Stats are Made for Recomputing by: joe
Nice painting…I think I’ve seen that before.
Dec 01
Stats are Made for Recomputing
Pop quiz: How fast should this Oracle query be?
select id from foo where rowid = :rid;
a) super fast. We are grabbing a row by its rowid, dummy.
b) really fast. This is a rowid, right?
c) ridiculously slow on a large table if the db statistics are out of date. It’ll do a full table [...]