Full-Text Search on SQLite
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Although some people may be aware that SQLite supports Full-Text Search (FTS) I would guess that not many have much experience with getting it setup... more »
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Petzold Book “The Annotated Turing” Hot Off the Presses!
I wish I could say that The Annotated Turing was "10 years in the making" but it's really only been 9 years.
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No, PHP does not suck; YOU suck
I'm getting sick of coming across so many PHP sucks articles being parroted all over the internets, so I wanted to dispel some of the myths and rumors... more »
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Programming Jobs: Dynamic and Static Languages
The following charts provide the number of jobs per language across the UK: Java, C#, C++, Javascript, PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby.
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IT posters to cover your empty walls
If you’re like us and have lots of empty wall space in your office you need to check out this list. We have collected a list of posters that focus on... more »
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Python Reference Manual has a lot to Learn From PHP
Unlike the other scripting languages I work with(like PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, etc.), I am not comfortable using Python. Thats because the Python... more »
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Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies
The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years.
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Biggest Under Reported Story: Google's BigTable Costs 10 Times Less than Amazon's SimpleDB
Why isn't Google's aggressive new database pricing strategy getting more pub? That's what Bill Katz, instigator of the GAE Meetup and prize winning... more »
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Python indendation rocks (and sucks a little bit)
Andy Buckley wrote a blog about why Python indentation was bad. He has two arguments, and one example. Fortunately, he is mostly wrong.
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A Look at Windows XP Service Pack 3, Part 2: Missing Vista
In Part 1 of my examination of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), I rhetorically asked whether XP was still "good enough" given the many advantages of... more »
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Zoom Out ZoomIt, here comes NLarge!
I have been using ZoomIt for a while now. It's a great and free presenter tool that let you zoom on screen areas while demoing stuff but there's a... more »
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PayPal’s Credit Card processing down for 8 hrs (and counting)
Quite a concern considering eBay is now making it mandatory for all auctions to include PayPal as a means of payment. And as of July this goes one... more »
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Copy-Paste Reasoning
I have a bit of trouble with people who use other people's opinions and arguments without thinking them through, or without analyzing a situation... more »
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Coding Horror: Designing For Evil
Have you ever used Craigslist? It's an almost entirely free, mostly anonymous classified advertising service which evolved from an early internet... more »
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Linux On The Desktop: Who Cares!
Every so often, you read on Slashdot, Digg, or some other techie news site that Linux is finally ready for the desktop. It's finally to the point that... more »
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Google: sorry, but Lisp/Ruby/Erlang not on the menu
I made the famously, horribly, career-shatteringly bad mistake of trying to use Ruby at Google, for this project. And I became, very quickly, I mean... more »
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Developers Rate Satisfaction with Their IDEs
Programmers spend a huge amount of time in the integrated development environment, where they write, debug and optimize their applications. A new... more »
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Alex Martelli Interviewed - Google's Uber Tech Lead on Software Engineering
Italian engineer Alex Martelli shares his thoughts on computer programming, software engineering, and some of the changes the IT industry may be... more »
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Python is great, but why do python frameworks suck that much
I don't stand ORM, I hate the Kid templating system, and the turbogears url mapping is terrible. But I would like to use it so much that it depress... more »
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Set up MySQL to email you poorly performing queries
I personally have MySQL logging every query that takes longer than 2 seconds to finish. Once I had MySQL logging this information, I created a plugin... more »
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New Image-recognition Software Could Let Computers 'See' Like Humans Do
It takes surprisingly few pixels of information to be able to identify the subject of an image, a team led by an MIT researcher has found. The... more »
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The creator of Ruby explains why Ruby sucks
Matz, the creator of Ruby, explains the problems Ruby faces in the "Vision for the future" Conference.
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OpenID: Does The World Really Need Yet Another Username and Password?
As we continue to work on the code that will eventually become stackoverflow, we belatedly realized that we'd be contributing to the glut of username... more »
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Busty Geek Shirt (possibly NSFW)
A new take on XML brackets! (Warning, if you're prudish or concerned about being PC, then don't click this.)
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Run Linux shell commands in Windows
If you are an experienced Linux user who misses a powerful command-line environment in Windows, you will enjoy Cygwin.
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