Jade's weblog Archive

Video on CO2 emissions

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12:55 PM, 01 Dec 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Prevent SSL warnings for certain CA certificates [www.macosxhints.com]

Helpful

01:48 PM, 11 Nov 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

An Inconvenient Truth

02:31 PM, 08 Nov 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Oracle 11g installation on VMWare Fusion with Ubuntu 7.10 [www.dizwell.com]

A few things I discovered.

The 64 bit server version did not work for me -- the 32 bit desktop version did.

12:21 PM, 22 Oct 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Oracle external tables [orafaq.com]

Oracle has a built-in facility for accessing text files as if they were tables in the database.

This is a screaming fast way of loading data into a table, and it is easier than SQLLDR, plus you can keep your foreign key constraints etc..

I used this at United eWay to replace some pages that were taking several hours to load data from a CSV file. The new script took a second or two instead of more than 18+ hours to run (and it actually never completed).

Combined with the MERGE SQL command, this is pretty powerful stuff.

03:43 PM, 17 Sep 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Insert multiple rows per insert with Oracle

insert all into foo (a, b) values ('1','2') into foo (a,b) values ('1','2') select sysdate from dual;

05:58 PM, 04 Sep 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Sasha on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdCaIOfw-X8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0It0kdAZnz8

05:03 PM, 04 Sep 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Dream Job [docs.google.com]

Looking for an exceptional senior developer. Must like having a dream job.

02:28 PM, 28 Aug 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

PROPFIND request failed when connecting to Subversion using self-issued server certificates - Darrell Norton's Blog [MVP] [codebetter.com]

Very helpful post on Subversion issue I ran into.

01:07 PM, 18 Jun 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Agile Release Management [docs.google.com]

This is an article I wrote on managing features and releases. Why read it? I think we've developed a few techniques that make life as a developer much easier.

We have four major releases each year at work, and last night's release was so easy I could been on vacation and it still could have happened. The whole tech team was not involved at all in the release.

10:24 AM, 16 Jun 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

New pics [www.rubick.com]

New

09:30 PM, 04 Jun 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Wonderful house for sale in Overlook, North Portland [portland.craigslist.org]

We're selling our house.

12:38 AM, 04 Feb 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

How to Encrypt and decrypt files with a password [www.cyberciti.biz]

How to encrypt and decrypt files with a password on Linux.

08:22 PM, 18 Jan 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Splitting files onto CDs

split -C 600m 10201_database_linux_x86_64.cpio.gz oracle10_2.cpio.gz.

Splits Oracle onto 600m sized files.

Then you can cat them back together

08:04 PM, 18 Jan 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Selecting a series of dates in Postgres [openacs.org]

Very useful.

11:16 AM, 11 Jan 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

New year's resolution to exercise? [www.rubick.com]

If your new year's resolution is to exercise, you might be interested in a few changes I've made to my exercise motivator.

First of all, I've changed the scoring system. It's now based on the number of minutes you've worked out in the last week.

For myself, I've made a reward system so that if I work out a certain number of minutes a week, then I get to purchase a CD that week. This helps me keep track.

04:37 PM, 01 Jan 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

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