I’ve just got one of the new Apple wireless keyboards. I have to say - i’m very impressed with it! It’s incredibly thin, good to look at, and doesn’t seem to gather as much crap in it as the old Apple keyboard. 
Little did I know that it’s even quite smart about people hitting the caps lock key by accident. I like it even more now (as I do hit the caps lock key quite a lot by accident)!
But I did notice something odd. I rarely use the Caps Lock key, but often accidently bang it, missing the left Shift key. I would feel the mistake while typing, but then I’d look down and see Caps Lock hadn’t been engaged after all. Oh, I must have just imagined my mis-strike.
Over the next few weeks, this kept happening to the point where I started questioning reality. I was positive I hit it. This required scientifical investigation.
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Oh dear, the rocket-powered X-Wing that was revealed last week never made it past launch day… It did get off the ground quite impressively though.
Here’s a video of the launch. 
One of the useful things that i’ve been asked to set-up lately is automatic logging of changes to several of our database tables.
My first thought was to do this in Perl (as the rest of the system is in Perl), but this would mean adding extra methods and calls in the Perl code to update the database (both the original tables and the new log tables). That seemed like a solution - a pain in the arse to implement, but a solution.
Thankfully one of the helpful chaps in my department suggested doing it all in the database with triggers as this is quite common in banks and the like. What a damn fine idea! Only a little SQL to write and no extra Perl.
Continue reading ‘Log/Audit Tables in Oracle’
A very interesting looking app. Some of the example images in their gallery look fantastic!
NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.
NodeBox
This is old news to most people who have been using Oracle for a while, but to me this is something new that I learnt today. How to have MySQL like “auto-increment” id’s for your tables in Oracle. Here’s an example…
Continue reading ‘Auto-Increment ID’s in Oracle’
Dammit! This would have been VERY useful to know about last weekend.1
Google Maps for Mobiles
oh. my. god.
This is what happens when nerds have waaay too much time on their hands. Will be great to see if this thing actually gets off the ground though! On October 10th we'll either have our first 'real' X-Wing or one very crispy model of R2-D2!
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Wow! I’ve been an F1 fan for quite some time, but over the last few years it’s become quite dull. Thank goodness for this year!
Nothing like some rain to bring on the fun in Japan!
All images © itv-f1.com
