APP Blog http://www.appdesign.com/blog Thoughts, rants, and code snippets from the folks at APP Design, Inc. Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:45:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 en “Hidden in Plain Sight” book http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/09/02/hidden-in-plain-sight-book/ http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/09/02/hidden-in-plain-sight-book/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:34:09 +0000 Ivan K http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2008/01/11/hidden-in-plain-sight-book/ 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.

]]> http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/09/02/hidden-in-plain-sight-book/feed/ Moving indices to a different partition in the Microsoft SQL Server http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/07/01/moving-indices-to-a-different-partition-in-the-microsoft-sql-server/ http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/07/01/moving-indices-to-a-different-partition-in-the-microsoft-sql-server/#comments Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:47:55 +0000 Ivan K http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2008/01/09/moving-indices-to-a-different-partition-in-the-microsoft-sql-server/ 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: (more…)

]]> http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/07/01/moving-indices-to-a-different-partition-in-the-microsoft-sql-server/feed/ The “Halo Effect” book http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/06/19/the-halo-effect-book/ http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/06/19/the-halo-effect-book/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:06:56 +0000 Ivan K http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2008/01/09/the-halo-effect-book/ Just finished reading The Halo Effect: … book by Phil Rosenzweig. It is almost exclusively devoted to debunking these three books: (more…)

]]> http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/06/19/the-halo-effect-book/feed/ Clone a line of text in Emacs http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/04/24/clone-a-line-of-text-in-emacs/ http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/04/24/clone-a-line-of-text-in-emacs/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:09:23 +0000 Ivan K http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/04/24/clone-a-line-of-text-in-emacs/ In order to create a key-stroke that clones a line of text in Emacs, put this in your .emacs file: (more…)

]]> http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/04/24/clone-a-line-of-text-in-emacs/feed/ Killing the whole word in Emacs http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/04/21/killing-the-whole-word-in-emacs/ http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/04/21/killing-the-whole-word-in-emacs/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:25:45 +0000 Ivan K http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/04/21/killing-the-whole-word-in-emacs/ 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. (more…)

]]> http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/04/21/killing-the-whole-word-in-emacs/feed/ Advantages of Character Database Keys http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/03/22/advantages-of-character-database-keys/ http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/03/22/advantages-of-character-database-keys/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:13:29 +0000 Ivan K http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/03/22/advantages-of-character-database-keys/ Introduction

Every database designer faces a decision regarding a selection of a database key type. The common practice, textbooks, and intuition suggest that numeric keys are better than character ones. And the strongest argument for numeric keys is performance - it is generally perceived that numeric keys provide for faster comparison operations inside the database thus improving search and access time.

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]]> http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/03/22/advantages-of-character-database-keys/feed/ A small fix for Perl HTTP::WebTest package http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/02/12/a-small-fix-for-perl-httpwebtest-package/ http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/02/12/a-small-fix-for-perl-httpwebtest-package/#comments Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:52:12 +0000 Ivan K http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2008/01/09/a-small-fix-for-perl-httpwebtest-package/ We’be been using a wonderful Perl web testing package HTTP::WebTest by Ilya Martynov for years . It’s quite old, but it aged gracefully except for one small problem: HTTP::WebTest’s API.pm module dies if an improper URI is passed along. (more…)

]]> http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/02/12/a-small-fix-for-perl-httpwebtest-package/feed/ First Post http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/01/08/first-post/ http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2007/01/08/first-post/#comments Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:31:47 +0000 Rob Q http://www.appdesign.com/blog/2008/01/08/first-post/ The nice thing about starting your own blog is that you always get first post!

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