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Mon
26 Apr 2004
3:17 am

How to speed up your PostgreSQL database with zero effort

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Run the ANALYZE command.

Thu
8 Apr 2004
3:09 pm

CSS HOWTOs

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Terse guide to CSS. Someday I will skim this to update my skills in this somewhat useful realm.

Fri
12 Mar 2004
4:59 pm

A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes)

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Ruby is a sweet little programming language. It has some of the Perl ethos of inspiration by natural language, and it is simple. It's smaller and less well known than Perl, but as you can tell by the name, it's probably roughly in the same family of programming languages. Future project: take an afternoon and learn it. This guide seems like a fun, skimmable way to start. And if I don't learn it soon, it'll be hard to be the first kid on the block hacking it.

(I'm betting there are a lot of geeks on my block, which seems probabilistically true although I have no first-hand evidence. Another project: get to know my neighbors better?)

Thu
29 Jan 2004
8:10 pm

Search and Download Oracle DB Docs

Posted by shimon under computers/reference materials , computers/relational databases , recommended by/Andrew Grumet , shimon/to read
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Andrew suggests I should check out these docs to see if there's an easy way to siphon the feeds.scripting.com data out of his oracle DB into a DB of some sort that I can play with. It may be easier to use the feeds.scripting SDK, but we'll see.

Fri
26 Dec 2003
3:07 pm