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Posted on December 7th, 2009 in English, Technology with no comments
Once again:
G1 is bricked. No alarm clock… No phone.. No sleep. It happened before, and they replaced my new phone with a refurbished one. Second time this happens in three months.
[rantmode]
Called rogers:
30 minutes wait on “”priority queue””. At 2AM that’s just 30 minutes wait. Yuppy!
30m on the phone with rogers staff that kept [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2009 in English, Technology with no comments
My first developerWorks article is now live! Thank you Susan and Michael for working with me on this one!
Feel like taking a look? Visit http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-db2JSONpt1
Posted on August 26th, 2009 in English, Technology with no comments
I was looking for a branch of ScotiaBank in Markham. Tried their website and – I don’t know if it’s down or if it’s just me – but couldn’t really find the information! In the bottom however I did notice this link saying Branch Locations and I decided to give it a try:
Now I had [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2009 in English, Technology with no comments
Describes how to install and un-install DB2 in Linux
Posted on June 11th, 2009 in English, Open Source with 2 comments
Call to open-source enthusiasts: Don’t work on Google Chromium. You work in a open-source project that is the foundation for Chrome and then you don’t even get support for Linux?? What’s up twith all the non-implemented messages?
I’m not even talking about the fact that they should open-source ALL the code and considering the implications of [...]
Posted on May 26th, 2009 in English, Technology with 3 comments
Just found this JSON Grammar[1] on my daily searches. Also found a JSON validation tool[2] provided on by the json.org. Was quite surprised to find out that both do not include escaping the solidus character. First I thought maybe the images were old and not updated but after reading the RFC[3] I’m pretty sure this [...]
Posted on May 9th, 2009 in English, Insomnia with 2 comments
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy [...]
Posted on May 1st, 2009 in English, Work with 5 comments
Before enrolling in my current position I had never considered an immensity of possibilities that exist in the computer industry. I had a very technical focus, always eager to learn the newest programming language, framework, technology, whatever. Just solving the next big challenge, and do it with a computer. While some had other hobbies I [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2009 in English, Technology with no comments
01′ Install Ruby and irb (if not installed in your current system)
a)’ Add ruby\bin to PATH (might be necessary)
02′ Download Ruby Gems (if you haven’t before)
a)’ Unzip Ruby Gems to <gems-dir>
b)’ In <gems-dir>; run
ruby setup.rb install
03′ Install Rack
gem install rack
04′ Install DB2 Express-C (if no DB2 is available in your current system)
05′ Run
db2sampl -xml
06′ Create [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 in English, Fun, Open Source, Technology with 1 comment
Seems like someone forgot to renew the domain Fail blog material!
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