Author: dp | 18 July 2010 | View Comments
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Author: dp | 16 December 2009 | View Comments
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It’s amazing how much content a company can add in a year, especially when that company writes articles for it’s living. A year and a half ago, I wrote this code against Comparison Between Solr And Sphinx Search Servers (Solr Vs Sphinx – Fight!) (beerpla.net)
Author: dp | 29 October 2009 | View Comments
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This link (CFO, a
Author: dp | 15 October 2009 | View Comments
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This post is just a list of ideas for a PGP encrypt text document Compress GPG/PGP output (gzip/bzip) Convert compressed information to QRCodes Print acid free paper Place in envelope Seal envelope (QRCode Printed on acid free paper On the cover of the envelope are the instructions to verify the authenticity of the requesting party. [...]
Author: dp | 01 October 2009 | View Comments
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Why is it that people get frustrated when something small goes “nearly” wrong but happy and joyous when something huge goes “nearly” wrong? For example: when a piece of paper nearly falls in your soup, you get angry because of what could have happened; but when on an airplane that nearly has a bad landing, [...]
Author: dp | 02 June 2009 | View Comments
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Recently, I needed to find all of the data in a table that was being used for HTML output, that had non-printable characters. The following SQL statement should do that for you: select id, name from table_name where name not regexp ‘^[a-zA-Z0-9_ ,&;\/<>(²):%*#?$|!+.\"\'-]+$; This code is MySQL specific, but should be applicable anywhere, really.
Author: dp | 26 May 2009 | View Comments
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I’ve been working on getting all of the sites on which I have public profiles compiled together into a list. Currently, the fruits of that effort can be seen in the sidebar of this site. All of those urls should have a rel=”me” attribute on them, so that the social graph is correct, and all [...]
Author: dp | 21 May 2009 | View Comments
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I’ve been on a mission lately to change all of my passwords on all of the sites that I use. To make it easier on me, I’m using Facebook, this seems like a very dangerous security issue to me. Maybe I’m just over-reacting, who knows.
Author: dp | 13 October 2006 | View Comments
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I highly doubt that anyone reading this site will know Stuart. Stuart and I were in the Eagle Scout). During that time, Stuart was as close to a ‘hero’, or an ‘idol’ as one person could be. I wanted to be everything that Stuart was, I wanted to do everything that he did. He was [...]
