The U.S. housing market has been in a depression for some time. I’ve been told not to worry, that it’s just a correction of a previous bubble, but I think it’s more serious than that. I’d like to propose that the main problem with the current housing market is not foreclosures, jobs, short-sales, bad loans, [...]
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Why Google Will Win
July 8, 2010 – 2:23 pm
I find amusement (almost daily) in reading the various Apple vs. Google discussions / flame wars in the technology and investing circles. It is an interesting case study in both technology and business, as the two companies clearly have very different strategies, but are both currently fighting over the very same turf.
Investing is entirely [...]
Simple MySQL Stored Procedure
February 14, 2009 – 10:39 am
Here’s a simple stored procedure I find myself using for MySQL over and over again. If you use a person’s email address as a database key, you may need to occasionally update their email address, and as such, you should update all references. Here’s a simple stored procedure to accomplish this:
DELIMITER $$
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS [...]
Bailout Perspective
November 26, 2008 – 9:35 am
Some economists are estimating the final government bailout number to be around 3 trillion dollars when all is said and done, with stop reserves going out to 7 trillion. According to census information, the total U.S. population is around 300 million. So, if for some reason the government decided to give the taxpayers back their [...]
Mainstreet Bailout
October 22, 2008 – 6:57 am
I’ve come up with a plan to help main street while helping wall street at the same time. No one wants to give anyone (mainstreet or wallstreet) a complete get out of jail free card, but the necessary evil is that something must be done, or we must struggle through an enormous recession and downturn [...]
App.config Settings for a Project with no Output
October 17, 2008 – 1:58 pm
Sometimes more than just connection strings need to be stored to a settings or configuration file of some kind. If you are building a mult-tier application and your project is a class library with no run-able code, you can’t just throw settings into an app.config file. Likewise, you wouldn’t want to put your tier-specific settings [...]
SQL Server Find Text in Any Field
October 17, 2008 – 7:06 am
In working with SQL server 2005, I came across this useful query which will loop through every table and every field in a database searching for specified text. This can really come in handy when you’re debugging someone else’s un-documented database and you know the text, but you’re not sure where it is stored in [...]
Stress Breakdowns
September 12, 2008 – 12:34 pm
It’s been my experience lately that there’s two main circumstances in which developers can inccurr a significant amount of unhealthy work-related stress:
Nothing to do. This doesn’t sound stressful, but when you go to work and don’t have anything to do it is extremely unfullfilling. Not to mention the temptation to pull up inappropriate material from [...]
Firefox 3 RC2 Available
June 5, 2008 – 8:04 am
Firefox version 3, Release Candidate 2 is now available for download! The immediate improvement I noticed: speed. Version 3 appears to start up a bit faster, load pages faster, and handle javascript-laden pages faster. Also nice to see were the numerous tasteful UI enhancements. Firefox has always had a simple UI before, and I’m glad [...]
SSHFS: A Perfect Remote File Manager?
March 26, 2008 – 7:26 pm
SSHFS is a Fuse-based Linux filesystem that allows you to connect to an SSH server, and mount it as you would any other mountable device. The difference is… this “device” is a remote server using an SSH connection. At Holley Grove, we use SSHFS on all of our servers, SSHFS might be something you should [...]