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As many of you know, I am a huge, HUGE,fan of Joel Spolsky. This week he’s got a new essay up. About prioritizing features in software. It’s very interesting.
It comes off like a despicable ‘team building’ exercise, but I think that with a small group it could really work.
Check it out for [...]

At work we use HP-UX unix servers for our oracle databases and applications.
This, of course, fine. Fine, all except for one thing. Korn Shell. Yes, the default shell is ksh.
The two of you that are still reading at this point are probably most used to BASH, which is probably by far the [...]

I’m going to have a week to kill, and I need a programming project to kill it with.
I’m out of ideas. Library is done, senate vote count is done, categories is done, bibliography is done, directory scraper is done.
So, if you guys can suggest something interesting I’ll put my programming skills to it next [...]

you tease and you flirt
and you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
you can please yourself but someones gonna get it
never said i was a stool pigen
never said i was a diplomat
but you dont wanna hear about that
Elvis Costello –Green Shirt
Joel Spolsky has a great line about why people are always re-writing there [...]

I’ve updated my blogroll to reflect all the weblogs I’m currently reading in my newsreader. My newsreader is Sharpreader
The very nice windows .Net based reader produced by Luke Hutteman.
I know I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking “wow! Pat, that is a lot of typing and cutting and pasting! Why go [...]

Only in dreams
We see what it means
Reach out our hands
Hold on to hers
But when we wake
It’s all been erased
And so it seems
Only in dreams
–Weezer Only In Dreams
Abe Fathman told me one time that he frequently has dreams wherein he solves programming problems. That doesn’t happen often to me (really only once that I [...]

I was getting really furious about the GOP is just shoving its collective way down our throats by consistently voting as a block in the Senate, and I was scanning around on the senate website trying to find a place where the votes are all tallied by party so that I could fuel my righteous [...]

I have a directory with all the single mp3s and folders for each band and its albums. When I tried to import that into iTunes, iTunes only imported a fraction of that folder. Apparently iTunes can’t handle 1200 files and 100+ folders. Whatever.
So I realized that I needed to create a playlist [...]

use ppm to uninstall the existing DBI module and then use PPM to install the following two modules:
ppm install ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.4/DBI.ppd
pppm install ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.4/DBD-Oracle.ppd
the version number in the URL should match the version number of Perl that you are running. Cruise around the FTP site to find what you are looking for.
MMV of course since you [...]

It really is, but one thing I don’t get is why do people think that Perl is somehow superior for web programming. My heavens what a mess of print statements!
Give me a language you can embed into the html anyday. Like PHP or ASP.
Also, if you are paying for hosting chances are that [...]