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Command history and line editing in Oracle queries
SQLplus is awful. No, really. Awful. If you have never been out of your box and used a modern shell, ok, perhaps your bar is low. For the rest of the animal kingdom, it is painful. A couple of solutions … Continue reading
Tmux for shared sessions for collaboration
Tmux is a terminal multiplexer that allows a number of terminals to be created, accessed and controlled from a single screen. You can attach and detach from a screen. It uses a client-server model, with the server holding multiple sessions … Continue reading
Nice how-to on setting up an RSS feedscraper for a site
Here is a nice how-to for people who might not know how to set up a feedscraper for generating an RSS feed from a site that doesn’t offer their own. Tweet
Change User Dir in Leopard
So, there is no way to use netinfo to change the userdir from one partition to another, as there was in 10.4. However, there is a way, and its easier by far, in 10.5. You can find it here. Its … Continue reading
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httperf testing with BB7.3
Trying to establish some autobench load tests on our production BB7.3 in order to make valid comparisons with a new, virtualized slice that we are offering for migration. This means we need to establish some quantitative characteristics for the evaluation … Continue reading
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Install and run ruby 1.9 alongside the ruby1.8 on your Leopard box
Ruby 1.9 is official and its time to start migrating your development and production efforts to the new platform. There are many sites that will help you make the transition, but you will need a 1.9 locally to use it … Continue reading
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monkey cleanup of sits/bb integration begins
The monkey began today so had to run an extract of bb7 data to allow for the cleanup to begin. Here is a dump of what I ended up running. Tweet
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OR09: Institutional Repositories: Contributing to Institutional Knowledge Management and the Global Research Commons
Wendy White (University of Southampton) spoke about how DRs fit into the larger, institutional KM framework. Tweet
Tagged CompSci, Dimland, Elearning
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Twill for testing interactive web apps
We needed to load test an errant web app in the harness. One could just pump link requests through the app, but that wouldn’t exercise it correctly as it needs form interaction to truly sweat. So, I pulled down twill … Continue reading
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Facebook bactracks on online privacy policy
Facebook rolled back a data-protection policy stance on Wednesday when they announce: Over the last past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have … Continue reading
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