Author: dan

I seem to always get this backwards, so I’m writing it down as a mnemonic.  The correct ln syntax is ln <target> <linkname> e.g. ln /usr/bin/shutdown shutdown

One year ago today, 8/18/2009, I was getting ready to go to lunch with Matt, Jorge and a consultant at work

I watched the old John Wayne “Alamo” movie and wondered about the text of the letter Travis sent out. To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World: Fellow citizens and compatriots: I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade…

Taken directly from Brian’s page and added here so I don’t have to keep searching for this the one time a year that I need it, delete T1 from MyTable T1, MyTable T2 where T1.dupField = T2.dupField and T1.uniqueField > T2.uniqueField

I have be using more javascript and css than I would like recently, but the power is amazing. My most recent revelation was that “read only” is for suckers, and using “disabled” is a better way to protect elements in forms from user access.  the main reason is because you can set disabled=[true|false] on any…

This script will backup your mysql DB using mysqldump, but because mysql dump locks the entire DB, this script only backs up one table at a time, thus only locking one table at a time.      #!/bin/sh # System + MySQL backup script # Copyright (c) 2008 Marchost # This script is licensed under…

I was shocked to discover at my new gig that the database password that Tomcat loaded up into JNDI were not encrypted on the live site.  I was even more shocked that Tomcat does not provide a quick fix for this. So here’s mine.  Encode the password in your text file, and figure out where…

Here’s my problem.  I’m making the following SQL call from my application: select a.*, b.* from foo a, bar b where a.[column]= b.[column] I don’t know on the application end what fields are in what table, and I don’t know what field the join will be on — that’s all dynamic. I need to know…

SELECT CONCAT(TABLE_NAME,’.’,COLUMN_NAME) FROM information_schema.COLUMNS where TABLE_SCHEMA=’foo’ and TABLE_NAME like ‘USER%’

I’ve been thinking about the Texas School Board flap, and I’ve decided that

double click on a word to highlight it.  Shift+F3 capitalizes the first letter.  Shift+F3 again capitalizes the whole word.  Shift+F3 a third time lower cases the word.  Probably should make a macro for this in Intellij…

Didn’t sleep much last night.  I’ve been thinking recently about citizens using government to absolve them of their social contract towards their neighbors. I happened to be watching Silverado last night, a damn fine western.  At one point in the film there is a fire, and the townspeople ALL pitch in.  In small municipalities you…

Below are the Massachusetts semi-finalists for this years James Beard Awards I’m going to try to hit every one this year. I’m especially surprised that there are 2 such great restaurants on Nantucket. I’ll come back and edit this post with reviews. CHEF RESTAURANT CITY Ana Sortun Oleana Cambridge Will Gilson Garden at the Cellar…

A guy over on Sportsdot has a theory that in almost every fantasy football league the person who drafted 3rd took LaDanian and will soon be in the playoffs, and everyone who drafted 2nd took Sean Alexander, and is now eliminated from the playoffs. He’s accumulating data, so your $0.02 will help read more | digg story