Oracle Timestamp

Freddy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:10:14 +0000

I’m lazy and keep forgetting the format string for formatting dates into strings that I can understand, so here it is:

Function:

to_char()

Arguments:

1) The date column you want to format

2) The mask – personal most commonly used:

‘yyyy/mm/dd hh:mi:ss am’

Hibernate configs

Freddy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:02:31 +0000

Documentation

In the hibernate.cfg.xml there is an option – ‘hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto’ that controls how it interacts with the database schema (assuming the user you used to connect has the appropriate privileges). The options for this config are as follows:

So the list of possible options are,

validate: validate the schema, makes no changes to the database.
update: update the schema.
create: creates the schema, destroying previous data.
create-drop: drop the schema at the end of the session.

Good presentations

Freddy — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:56:31 +0000

Good stuff:

http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/10-more-awesome-web-development-screencasts-and-presentations/

Also, if you’ve never been to ted.com, check it out, there’s some cool stuff there.

Super Computers

Freddy — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:26:44 +0000

Amazing statistics that only prove one thing – Linux servers still rock.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10187248.stm

Crossing

Freddy — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:52:11 +0000

Argument for the Soul

Freddy — Fri, 21 May 2010 21:07:08 +0000

Slightly paraphrased -

We must allow the existence of the soul in order to explain free will. Otherwise, we are just machines with genetically coded instructions from our creators. ~ Shelly Kagan

Spring Source Tool Suite

Freddy — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:30:13 +0000

Holy crap, half a day and dozens of Google searches later, I found the 3 things necessary to install STS in Eclipse 3.5.2

Behold !

https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-831

Adding these 3 update sites:

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/e3.4
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/extras
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/35/update

The one that fixed my particular issue was this one:

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/35/update

Conficker

Freddy — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:48:07 +0000

Yikes – http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/the-enemy-within/8098/1/

Potato Gnocchi and Sausage

Freddy — Wed, 12 May 2010 01:48:24 +0000

http://www.thedragonskitchen.com/2008/07/potato-gnocchi-sausage.html

Ingredients:

1 18 0z package of Potato Gnocchi
3 smoked pork sausages (turkey sausage works great too), sliced
1/4 cup of chopped onions
1 clove of garlic, minced
2 tablespoons of butter
pinch of hot pepper flakes
1/2 tablespoon of fresh thyme leaves
1/2 tablespoon of fresh oregano, chopped
1 cup of frozen peas, run under water to thaw (optional)
1/4 cup of grated parmesan cheese
salt & pepper to taste

A new favorite, one slight modification from the recipe above:

Red peppers instead of onions, sweet italian sausage, and no hot pepper flakes (I do love hot though)

Find filename given the whole path

Freddy — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:00:27 +0000

Often times in scripting on a Linux box, you end up passing around the full path to a resource (it’s messy coding tbh).

This is great until you want to use just the filename in something.

Here’s a simple Python method that takes a full filename with path and grabs just the filename.

def findFileName (self, fileNameWithPath):

splitStr = fileNameWithPath

strList = splitStr.rsplit(‘/’, 1)

fileName = strList[len(strList) - 1]

return fileName