Top stories published by Sam Kenny’s a(musing) in March of 2013

Top Stories published by Sam Kenny’s a(musing) in March of 2013

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Mar 3, 2013

OPENXML and SQL

Recently I needed to implement a feature that allows a user to specify a “Rate Reset” on a BondID/Counterparty pair.

The new Rate needed to be applied to all “open” trades that were on the BONDID and with the particular Counterparty.

In case of Emergency: how to setup Crashplan on a Synology NAS

I love my Synology NAS — the 211+ — and depend on it for my iTunes library, photos, video and backups (including off-site backup to Crashplan). My Logitech Squeezebox (sadly discontinued, why, oh why, oh why…) also uses…

VMWare Player

VMWare Player is free and you can get up and running with virtual environments (at least from Windows 7) very quickly and easily. I set up Mac OS/X in a VM the other day to see if it was possible, and this evening, once I had downloaded the iso, was able to run Ubuntu 11.04 in a couple of minutes.