“Hidden in Plain Sight” book
September 2nd, 2007
Finished a third of the Hidden in Plain Sight book. I thought I read good reviews about it, but I could not find them any more. Anyway, the premise is this: find out what customers want and deliver it. This breakthrough insight is based on a number of corporate anecdotes. I feel cheated out of my $20, I hope I bought it used.
Let’s say your database grows big and you need to add additional storage. You can engage in a re-partitioning project using a backup/restore strategy, but the simplest thing to do is to start with moving indices. Here is the script to do that: Read the rest of this entry »
The “Halo Effect” book
June 19th, 2007
Just finished reading The Halo Effect: … book by Phil Rosenzweig. It is almost exclusively devoted to debunking these three books: Read the rest of this entry »
Clone a line of text in Emacs
April 24th, 2007
In order to create a key-stroke that clones a line of text in Emacs, put this in your .emacs file: Read the rest of this entry »
Killing the whole word in Emacs
April 21st, 2007
Emacs has two methods of killing words: kill-word kills from the point to the end of the word, kill-word-backward kills from the beginning of the word to the point. More often than not I’d like to kill the whole word with one key-stroke. Read the rest of this entry »