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  • 21:5621:56, 23 June 2009 diff hist +1,209 Nm Oracle DBMS OUTPUT.PUT LINENew page: Q: How do I view the output from DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE statements in a stored procedure. A: You can have the output sent to your screen if you run the following statement before executing ... current

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  • 00:3700:37, 3 June 2009 diff hist +649 Nm Bash completionNew page: Useful completion function if you have sudo to a number of users with a small number of commands. <geshi lang="bash"> _sudo() { local cur prev opts base COMPREPLY=() cur="${COMP_W... current

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  • 01:2701:27, 23 March 2009 diff hist +1,825 Nm Javascript callback recursionNew page: Recently, I had the misfortune to have to write some JavaScript which needed to work in IE6. Basically, I wanted to create a loading screen for a web page. Basically the code looks like:... current

8 March 2009

  • 19:4419:44, 8 March 2009 diff hist +694 Nm Average ping timeNew page: This perl one-liner sends ten 100 byte packets to '''hostname''', and then displays the average. <geshi lang="perl"> /usr/sbin/ping -s hostname 100 10 | perl -ne \ 'BEGIN{ $sum = 0.0; $c... current

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  • 18:0818:08, 23 February 2009 diff hist +3,037 Nm Sybase Packet TraceNew page: Sometimes it's useful to view all the data being sent and received from a Sybase installation. Depending on the hardware one may be able to directly run a packet sniffer to view the traff... current

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  • 01:0201:02, 16 February 2009 diff hist +246 Nm Encrypt a fileNew page: How to quickly encrypt a file. <geshi lang="bash"> echo "Hello world" > message.txt encrypt -a 3des -i message.txt -o message.txt.encrypted Enter key: decrypt -a 3des -i message.txt.encry...

21 January 2009

  • 00:4300:43, 21 January 2009 diff hist +334 Nm Count Logical IONew page: I append this one liner to my sqsh statement to get a count of logical io. Be sure to '''set statistics io on''' first. <geshi lang="bash">| ruby -pe ' BEGIN{@sum=0}; if $_ =~ /logical re... current

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  • 02:2002:20, 3 December 2008 diff hist +2,884 Nm And vs Modulo performanceNew page: In school I was taught the modulo operator is slow compared with bitwise operators. This is because often modulo is implemented using divide. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_oper...

24 November 2008

  • 00:2500:25, 24 November 2008 diff hist +3,039 Nm Ivy+Eclipse 3.4New page: After upgrading to Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede), I started getting this error when attempting to run a JUnit 3 Test Suite: <pre> junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: No tests found in com.fin... current

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  • 04:3104:31, 11 November 2008 diff hist +375 m BITSNo edit summary current
  • 02:2102:21, 11 November 2008 diff hist +2,425 Nm BITSNew page: BITS is Microsoft's '''Background Intelligent Transfer Service'''. Today I wanted to install C# so I could play around with the Communicator API. So, I found the download on Microsoft's ...

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  • 03:3103:31, 1 October 2008 diff hist +1,153 Nm Java Proper CaseNew page: A quick search on how to proper case or title case a Java string returned a number way to approach this problem. In C/assembly you can do the replacement in place, and very fast using bit...

30 September 2008

  • 23:1523:15, 30 September 2008 diff hist +1,981 Nm Timeago.rbNew page: Here's yet another timeago function which I found, for those who don't want to include a full Rails framework in your Ruby script. Sorry - I don't remember where I copied this function fr... current

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  • 05:1505:15, 26 September 2008 diff hist +10,217 Nm Log4j file rotationNew page: If you have an application writing to a log file using log4j, under what circumstances could the log rotation cause the hosting process to fail? I spent some time investigation this tod...

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  • 21:1621:16, 21 September 2008 diff hist +2,802 Nm Nothing Compares to YouNew page: One of my frequent pain points with Java Generics concerns the '''Comparable''' interface. In pre-generics, the Comparable interface can be specified at multiple points within an inherita... current

17 September 2008

  • 07:1207:12, 17 September 2008 diff hist +510 Nm Python TipsNew page: Python takes some getting used to. The clean syntax is great, but it has some things which a Java or Ruby programmer might not guess. == How to tell if an object is None == This won't...

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  • 23:5923:59, 8 September 2008 diff hist +510 Nm Excel UndoNew page: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc first spreadsheet] came out in 1979. I can't believe it's 2008 and the leading spreadsheet program can't get the '''undo''' function right. I a...

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  • 20:2820:28, 1 September 2008 diff hist +214 Nm Ruby One LinersNew page: Parse Awstats html output. <geshi lang="ruby"> ruby -ne 'if $_ =~ /href="http:\/\/www.theeggeadventure.com\/(.*?)".*?([0-9]+).*?([0-9.]+) KB/ then puts "#{$1}\t#{$2}\t#{$3}" end ' \ < aws...

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  • 20:0620:06, 13 August 2008 diff hist +224 Nm SingletonListNew page: Instead of writing <geshi lang="java"> List<String> list = new ArrayList(); list.add(item); </geshi> You can simply write: <geshi lang="java"> List<String> list = Collections.singletonLis... current

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  • 21:3021:30, 4 August 2008 diff hist +743 Nm PfilesNew page: Solaris 10 doesn't come with lsof, and a non-root user can't compile and run lsof. However, the '''pfiles''' command in Solaris 10 can offer similar functionality. Unfortunately, it does...

30 July 2008

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