... until the collector arrives ...

This "blog" is really just a scratchpad of mine. There is not much of general interest here. Most of the content is scribbled down "live" as I discover things I want to remember. I rarely go back to correct mistakes in older entries. You have been warned :)

2008-09-22

SQL Server 2000 vs LOG and SQRT

If you attempt to take the LOG or SQRT of a negative number in SQL Server 2000, it fails quietly but catastrophically.  Should a query attempt to perform one of these operations, the result set is empty -- all rows are discarded.  No error is reported, neither to the client nor in the SQL Server logs.

2008-09-21

OpenLaszlo

OpenLaszlo will now compile its applications down to DHTML (in addition to the Flash that it has always done).

2008-09-12

Quick Highlighter

Quick Highlighter is an on-line service that can generate pretty looking output for code in many languages.  My favourite feature of this service is that it hyperlinks built-in constructs to their reference pages -- especially for less popular languages like Haskell.

2008-09-06

Hadoop

Hadoop is Apache's Java implementation of the map-reduce concurrent programming model.

2008-09-04

Server2Go

Server2Go is an out-of-the box Apache/PHP/MySQL stack that can run off read-only media (and writable media as well).

OpenSourceCMS

OpenSourceCMS is a web site that hosts sandboxes for many of the open source CMS systems.  It provides a painless way to try out the various products.

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