Ferry Boender
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Modeling Chess using SQL
Here’s an interesting use of SQL: SQLChess – A tutorial on thinking in sets.
AsciiDoc: Text based document generation
I write a lot of documentation for various articles and projects. Usually, I’ll use DocBook for writing that documentation. DocBook is an SGML/XML dialect for writing articles, books and other writings. It’s pretty extensive, and it can do a lot. It can export to LaTeX, HTML, PDF and a variety of other formats. But it’s […]
Nine-and-a-half facts about Vista
Here are some true facts about Microsoft Vista: Vista is the forefather of the Matrix AND Skynet Vista installations contain two full dumps of both Bill Gates and Steve Balmers DNA so they can be cloned in the future. Your installation of Vista is very safe. The FBI, NSA and Homeland Security keep a close […]
SQL: Find duplicate rows
Amazingly enough, I’ve never had the need to find duplicate rows in a table before. But in this case, I somehow forgot to add a key to a particular table in a database and, naturally, duplicates where accidentally inserted. Of course you’ll want to put a key on the table, but first you’ll have to […]
Did you know? Fish cleaning stations
The little blue-yellow fish (a Spanish Hogfish) in the picture on the right looks like it doesn’t have long to live, doesn’t it? But nothing’s farther from the truth. This fish is hard at work. The fish surrounding it (called Grunts, apparently) are inviting, or rather begging, the Spanish Hogfish to clean them. This is […]
OpenOffice Writer: Refer to section
When writing a document, you’ll probably want to refer to another section in the document. For instance: “See chapter 5 for more information”. However, when you insert a new chapter before chapter 5, you’ll have to read through your entire document and update every mentioning of “Chapter 5” to “Chapter 6”. Tedious and prone to […]
Disable Firefox session manager
Firefox 2.x has a built in session manager. When the browser is restarted after a crash, it re-opens every window/tab that was open before the crash. This behaviour is very annoying to me, as I never properly close Firefox, but always just halt my machine. If you want to disable session managing in Firefox, type […]
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Interesting review of a book: Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why: A review. Thus, the KJV [King James Version of the bible] consists of Jesus’ words twice refracted through the prism of translation. Second, Erasmus’s Greek New Testament was based on handwritten copies of copies of copies of copies, etc., […]
Bad Vista!
Bad vista!. Bad Vista blog. Thanks Mafkees. :-)
PHP Namespaces committed
Gravitronic lets us know that a patch that implements namespaces in PHP has now been committed. The last time I took a look at the roadmap for PHP6, it was still undecided if namespaces would make the cut. Seems like they have now (although they could still revert the commit, like they did with namespaces […]
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