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Oracle, Daylight Saving Time, And Unix Timestamps

If ever there was a combination to make you hate developing web applications against an Oracle database, it’s the one defined in the title of this post. Let’s see: Unix timestamps are used in a lot of web applications because they’re easy to work with Oracle doesn’t have any native functions for working with Unix [...]

“Expected identifier, string or number”

Thanks, IE. I just spent pretty much all day tracking down the cause of this error. Conventional wisdom regarding this error is that you have a snippet of JavaScript like (where the comma trailing “42″ is the error): var myObj = { a: “a string”, b: 42, } I didn’t. But IE 8 was still [...]

Create A Daemon Out Of Any Program

I find myself having to write a script that does this sort of thing every time I have a need. I finally got fed up enough with that to write a generic script that can be used with any interactive program. The script can be found on my BitBucket site under the Scripts repository; the [...]

~/.ssh/config

~/.ssh/config is a file I have not had occasion to use until today. Evidently not many other people use it very often either, because finding the information I needed was more difficult than it should have been. Thus, this post is meant to make it easier to find. I am currently hosting a private Minecraft [...]

Sonar 2011 Remix Competition And My Re-emerging Hobby

I have entered the Sonar 2011 remix competition by Loopmasters with a track I’m calling Sonacid. It’s got a Wink style acid house vibe. This is my first public release since getting started with Ableton Live four months ago. Which brings me to the second part of this post’s title. Before I truly committed myself [...]