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Apr 18, 2016

Hibernate and your Getters and Setters

Originally posted Sunday March 11, 2007

When you’re using Hibernate and are mapping to properties, keep your getters and setters as simple and self-contained as possible. The receiver being initialized may not…

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Apr 18, 2016

Approximating a Circle with a Polygon

Originally posted on April 27, 2006

I recently had an opportunity to use ESRI’s ArcSDE again. It is a spatial database interface and in this instance I was using the java api. I wanted to change what used to be a…

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Apr 18, 2016

CVS Update: Move Away foo.bar; It is in the Way

Originally posted on April 26, 2007

A client site still uses CVS, the ever trusty version control system. After what seemed a run of the mill merge I noticed this:

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Apr 18, 2016

Rails Fixtures with Models Using set_table_name

Originally posted April 22, 2007

If you have a model that uses set_table_name you may hit a snag when trying to use fixtures and unit tests. The solution is twofold: name the fixture file using the…

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Apr 18, 2016

Commons Collections By Example: Maps

Originally posted February 9, 2006

I realized today just how much I used the Commons Collections library. Sure, there’s alot of anonymous inner classes, but after years of writing Swing I’ve gotten used to sort of…

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Apr 18, 2016

How to Build the PHP rrdtool Extension by Hand

Originally posted May 9, 2006

I think by now most sysadmin types know about rrdtool and the nice graphs it makes. I recently wanted to create some graphs by hand using PHP so I turned to the php-rrdtool…

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Apr 18, 2016

Ruby’s DBI or ActiveRecord

Originally posted Apr 9th, 2006

While creating a small CGI web application in Ruby the question came up about how much slower ActiveRecord is than DBI. Considering that ActiveRecord is initialized each time the CGI runs the performance…

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Apr 18, 2016

Mongrel vs. WEBrick

Originally posted Apr 3rd, 2007

We had the need to hook up a simple ruby web process (non-rails) to our production apache server. As Leslie Hensley pointed out, fcgi and scgi are on the way out, and mongrel + mod_proxy_balancer is the new way to…

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Apr 18, 2016

Offloading Web Traffic Using Amazon’s S3 Service

Originally posted Mar 28th, 2006

We have a couple of fairly high traffic sites that have large images designed to be used for desktop backgrounds. To save a bit of bandwidth, we decided to give…

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Apr 18, 2016

Programming Languages Are Slow

Originally posted Oct 15th, 2010

I was chatting with a friend of mine who’s been working toward getting his company to consider a migration to Ruby on Rails. It’s interesting to me, because they’ve been using frameworks that are…

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Apr 18, 2016

Creating S3 URLs That Expire Using PHP

Originally posted Jun 1st, 2006

After reading this post on the S3 forum I realized that other people are thinking about doing some of the same stuff I have. Paolonew was looking for a way to for a way to create URLs…

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Apr 18, 2016

Fun with Oracle Strings

Originally posted Feb 13th, 2006

Today I needed to find a way to count the number of unique email domains in a table. I figured there was a way of getting the index of a string in another string and sure enough there is. This did the trick…

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Apr 18, 2016

Quick and Dirty Ruby

Originally posted Feb 16th, 2006

At work I received an email from someone that listed libraries I should use when connecting to their AS400 system. I wanted a quick way to convert their whitespace table into a nice comma-separated list. Below is…

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Apr 18, 2016

No Javascript Detection

Originally posted Feb 15th, 2006

Have you ever wondered what you can do if someone doesn’t have javascript turned on and it is needed on the page they are sitting at? Well here is the answer:

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Apr 18, 2016

Seeing Ruby

Originally posted Apr 5th, 2006

This past Friday I participated in my first presentation, Seeing Ruby: An Introduction to the Ruby Programming Language at the iTRC in Louisville, Kentucky. Chuck Fouts, Steven Yelton, and I did our level best to introduce our…

April 20, 2016

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