Best of Today

I love how on the internet today, I can start off reading about the top 5 text editors from Lifehacker, and somehow end up looking at some Web Design girl’s twitter feed which links to her site which links to her blog which goes to the youtube video below.

1) http://www.thefuntheory.com/ – With this terrific video that makes me laugh at human kind – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw&feature=player_embedded#

2) A text editor with an extremely basic but cool site – http://cream.sourceforge.net/ . The site layout is so simple but… I love it.

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CIO vs CTO

Typically, a CIO is involved with analyzing and reworking existing business processes, with identifying and developing the capability to use new tools, with reshaping the enterprise’s physical infrastructure and network access, and with identifying and exploiting the enterprise’s knowledge resources. Many CIOs head the enterprise’s efforts to integrate the Internet into both its long-term strategy and its immediate business plans. The CIO is evolving into a role where he/she is creating and monitoring business value from IT assets.

In general, the CTO is concerned with the architecture, design & development, security, operational integrity, system support and maintenance across the IT organization. The CTO is responsible for delivering IT solutions with a focus on technical problem solving. In contrast, the CIO is focused on the IT strategy formulation, planning and strategic alignment of IT with the corporate objectives. The CIO ensures that return on IT investments are realized as planned.

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Best Wallpaper Sites

I decided I needed a new wallpaper, and I just didn’t have time to find and use one of my own pictures.

I’m not sure what I’d do without Lifehacker stories…

http://lifehacker.biz/articles/best-wallpaper-websites/

Found this:

Over at www.interfacelift.com

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Links

http://24ways.org/2009/make-your-mockup-in-markup

http://gridder.andreehansson.se/

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html

http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/

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Oracle Dual Table

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUAL_table

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/10gdba/week7_10gdba.html

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Oracle Certification Program Paths

Oracle University

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=198

Step 1:

Oracle Certified Associate -

Oracle Database SQL Expert

Summary from the class needed to pass this test –

Oracle 11g Introduction to SQL

Step 2: To be continued…

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What is 2>&1

From http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch08_13.htm

One of the common questions about the Bourne and Korn shells is why only the second command will redirect both stdout and stderr (13.1) to a file:

$ cat food 2>&1 >file
cat: can't open food
$ cat food >file 2>&1
$

Although lots of sh manual pages don’t mention this, the shell reads arguments from left to right.

  1. On the first command line, the shell sees 2>&1 first. That means “make the standard error (file descriptor 2) go to the same place as the standard output (fd1) is going.” There’s no effect because both fd2 and fd1 are already going to the terminal. Then>file redirects fd1 (stdout) to file. But fd2 (stderr) is still going to the terminal.
  2. On the second command line, the shell sees >file first and redirects stdout to file. Next 2>&1 sends fd2 (stderr) to the same place fd1 is going - that’s to the file. And that’s what you want.
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Let that be enough tabs

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/s/switchfoot/let_that_be_enough_tab.htm

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Sample bashrc file

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/sample-bashrc.html

sample-bashrc

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Oracle stuff

  • Control database access to specific objects
  • Manage schema objects and use data dictionary views
  • Manipulate large data sets in the Oracle database by using subqueries
  • Manage data in different time zones
  • Retrieve data by using advanced subqueries
  • Use the regular expression support in SQL to search, match, and replace strings in terms of regular expressions
  • Retrieve row and column data from tables with the SELECT statement
  • Create reports of sorted and restricted data
  • Display data from multiple tables.
  • Use DML statements to manage data.
  • Use DDL statements to manage database objects
  • Create reports of sorted and restricted data
  • Run data manipulation statements (DML) to update data
  • Control database access to specific objects
  • Manage schema objects
  • Manage objects with data dictionary views
  • Retrieve row and column data from tables
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