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MySQL and performance 19 Mar 2013 | 09:24 pm
When it comes to database performance - it should be consistent and reliable. We had a setup where 60 users connected a MySQL database over network. During a certain process of the application MySQL d...
Tweeting #nowlistening song from OS X 19 Mar 2013 | 08:30 am
I always wanted to tweet the song I am currently listening to. I have looked into various plugins and other ways to tweet out the #nowlistening. But couldn’t find one that matches my requirements and ...
So what did Chan learn today? 16 Mar 2013 | 06:48 pm
He learned about boredom. He learned why he was feeling bored and knew by inspiration what he needs to do to pull back the awesome spirits. How did Chan manage to be yet again awesome? Bingo - He pon...
Working and Fun 26 Feb 2013 | 07:21 pm
Now now I was a workaholic a while ago. But then I noticed I was making progress slowly. Slow progress because maybe I was tired or I didn’t have time to think out of the box. I was doing things accor...
Understanding Lock-in for CA 15 Jan 2013 | 07:23 pm
Lock-in is the procedure followed by organizations to retain customers. The general paradigm is by increasing switching costs, you can increase the lock-in ratio as well. Another important point we ne...
Data samples for testing 8 Jan 2013 | 11:10 pm
Data samples for testing: This thread provides great resources to collect data for samples. Pretty useful to test out programming problems on.
IO APIs in Java - NIO, NIO 2 8 Jan 2013 | 11:08 pm
Inputs and Outputs are the bread and butter of computer programming. You read from a hardware resource and you write to a hardware resource. Over the years there have been improvements on the Operativ...
I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit 10 Dec 2012 | 08:51 pm
I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit: A great post regarding how to scrape web content without API support. But beware not to break the ToS of the site. ~Dchan
Connecting PostgreSQL to Python 6 Dec 2012 | 11:29 pm
I have started a python project to learn more about python and the practical usages of it. My first love in programming was Java… Second is python. I wanted to connect PostgreSQL to python since I wa...
How do you format code like that in entries? 5 Dec 2012 | 11:02 pm
I uses a plugin called google-code-prettify. The way to do it is to edit your tumblr theme. Go to the HTML edit of the customization - then insert the below code in your . Now all you need to do is ...
