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While there may have been some better times in the history of software engineering, it’s pretty good out there now. This is especially true for those that do applications development. With the advent of the web the number of opportunities … Continue reading →

It seems that many people are finally agreeing that we have a major deficit problem.  The real debate seems to be how to fix it.  There are those that want to make budget cuts and a rare few that argue … Continue reading →

I have been using the Verizon 4G LTE Mobile hotspot in the wild now for a few weeks. The experience has been far from ideal. I am still mostly using it in outlying areas with 3G coverage so this review … Continue reading →

Deploying to a multistage environment stack is so common there is even a nice Capistrano extension for it. However, if you decide to run Rails3 in jRuby with a deployment on glassfish forget all that nonsense. Glassfish is coded to … Continue reading →

In my earlier article Ruby on Rails vs. Java I put down jRuby and kind of being a niche option for organizations that want to get around their limitations put on my management. In the months since writing that article … Continue reading →

My 10 year old is 4-0 in picking Super Bowl winners. This years pick: Atlanta Falcons. Continue reading →

I live in the United States. As such I enjoy an immense amount of freedoms both online and in the real world. I have been doing some research lately into other areas of the world and how people get their … Continue reading →

Oralce requires that you periodically gather statistics on the queries you are running. The following command will do that for your local schema. It can be run as the schema owner or sysdba exec dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats(ownname=> '<schema name, upper case>', cascade … Continue reading →

If you are anything like me, I have a lot of personal files on my home computer. I have 150Gb just in photos alone. I recently had a hard drive fail, and it failed pretty bad. I was unable to … Continue reading →