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"01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcd51ed73f", "title": "Which log levels to use when?", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/which-log-levels-to-use-when/", "published_at": "2008-02-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcd59af8e4", "title": "Copy/paste between Excel and MSN", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/copypaste-between-excel-and-msn/", "published_at": "2008-01-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcd5b2152f", "title": "Why does my internet router have a \"standby\" button?", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/useful-standby-button/", "published_at": "2008-01-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcd5da2fce", "title": "Random unreproducable Tomcat error of the day", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/random-unreproducable-java-error-of-the-day/", "published_at": "2008-01-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcd63dfa9d", "title": "Bosses used to be called \"administrators\"", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/bosses-used-to-be-called-administrators/", "published_at": "2008-01-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcd702c588", "title": "Web software front-end test cases", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/web-software-front-end-test-cases/", "published_at": "2008-01-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcd7bf9f34", "title": "The cycle of programming languages", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/the-cycle-of-programming-languages/", "published_at": "2008-01-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcd8aebbe3", "title": "New Year, New Blog (2008)", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/new-year-new-blog/", "published_at": "2008-01-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcd924729d", "title": "Domain-name search Firefox feature", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/domain-name-search-firefox-feature/", "published_at": "2007-12-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcd94cdb60", "title": "Unbelievable PHP limitation of the day", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/unbelievable-php-limitation-of-the-day/", "published_at": "2007-12-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcda106b9a", "title": "Vector graphics in the browser", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/vector-graphics-in-the-browser/", "published_at": "2007-11-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcda410e22", "title": "`COUNT(*)` vs `COUNT(pk_col)`", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/count-vs-countpk_col/", "published_at": "2007-11-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcdb31e969", "title": "Sony support: Day 35 (approx)", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/sony-support-day-35-approx/", "published_at": "2007-10-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcdb6147f5", "title": "The CD Saga gets worse", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/the-cd-saga-gets-worse/", "published_at": "2007-10-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcdc14e1c5", "title": "Playing a CD on a computer is not as easy as one might imagine", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/playing-a-cd-on-a-computer/", "published_at": "2007-10-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcdcb9cfd6", "title": "Override configuration programmatically from unit tests", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/unit-testing-and-configuration-files/", "published_at": "2007-09-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08768-7145-73ff-97cf-a7bcdd2dae83", "title": "Java 5 enums can be compared with ==", "url": "https://www.databasesandlife.com/java-5-enums-can-be-compared-with/", "published_at": "2007-09-06T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2012

IDE reverse auto-completeoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2012

2011

"childs" is not a wordoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2011
Wicket auto-complete text fieldsoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2011
Converting an SVG to a PDF programmaticallyoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2011
To find the number of days until the end of the month, compare with the first day of the next monthoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2011
The failings of MySQL's `curtime` functionoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2011
PC fireoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2011
The method invocation operator, and expressions, in PHPoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2011
Quotes in CSV Filesoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2011
In Java, private classes can be used in signatures of public interfaces. This makes no sense.original ↗
8 Feb 2011
aezpskin Wörterbuchoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2011
Position of the star when declaring C pointersoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2011

2010

Teamwork training in Neusiedloriginal ↗
26 Nov 2010
Atomic operations over filesystem and databaseoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2010
Circular dependencies on Foreign Key constraints (Oracle)original ↗
9 Nov 2010
1k Reputation on stackoverflow.comoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2010
Working at s IT Solutions: My first large companyoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2010
Don't use the `@author` Javadoc tagoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2010
Checked exceptions and Java Callablesoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2010
VPN failoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2010
Store data files in one big directoryoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2010
XSS attack via unchecked image uploadsoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2010
Lettersoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2010
Multi-core RISC OS proposaloriginal ↗
11 Jun 2010
Sudoku Solveroriginal ↗
15 May 2010
Mr/Mrs/...original ↗
30 Apr 2010
The special variable “_”original ↗
30 Apr 2010
`/etc/cron.daily` scripts may not have dots in their nameoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2010
Java was lacking a String "join" functionoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2010
Java varargs: inconsistent behaviour if you pass an arrayoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2010
Was Java's "for each" version of its `for` statement originally called `foreach`?original ↗
24 Mar 2010
We took uboot.com online 10 years agooriginal ↗
21 Feb 2010
In user-interface design, always address the user as "you" (and never "me")original ↗
15 Feb 2010
If you want to generate code, make sure your target language is not Javaoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2010

2009

Why am I using Hibernate?original ↗
11 Dec 2009
First impressions of the "Go" programming languageoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2009
Java: Always explicitly specify which XML parser to useoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2009
ssh to easyname accountoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2009
Never close PHP class files with the "?>" tagoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2009
Starting Jetty: FAILEDoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2009
Hibernate error means the complete opposite of what it says, due to wording errororiginal ↗
10 Jun 2009
Today I saw a cool device in a data centers that needs no electricityoriginal ↗
15 May 2009
Order of parameters to functionsoriginal ↗
8 May 2009
Warning: MySQL `LOCK TABLES` command does an implicit commitoriginal ↗
7 May 2009
Java really delivers "write once, run anywhere"original ↗
6 May 2009
I redesigned the website of the first company I ever worked for: www.aaa-plus.comoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2009
Per-CPU performance statistics are uselessoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2009
Google Streetview is amazingoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2009
"Ask Tom" Oracle Seminar in Pragueoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2009
"v" command in "less"original ↗
4 Mar 2009
Klingon programming proverboriginal ↗
17 Feb 2009
"Annotations" That Only Appear When a Unit Test Failsoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2009
Why Subversion is better than Gitoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2009
Primary keys only need to be unique; there's many characteristics they often have but don't need to haveoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2009
Unicode characters in file namesoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2009
An Email Address Field Should Be Called "email address" (Not "email")original ↗
23 Jan 2009

2008

Solved: Jetty "null127.0.0.1" errororiginal ↗
20 Nov 2008
Automatic reconnect from Hibernate to MySQLoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2008
mysqli_affected_rows gotchaoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2008
Selling my Renault Spideroriginal ↗
18 Sept 2008
Google Chrome UI nicetiesoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2008
databases&life awards for NIHS syndromeoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2008
Geometric vs supersampling polygon renderingoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2008
Crazy algorithm for displaying text size valueoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2008
"Just-in-time" inserting rows into a databaseoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2008
WebTek: Unique constraints and the `alreadyexists` errororiginal ↗
13 Jun 2008
Oracle, Nulls and the empty stringoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2008
Use fixed-width fonts for data entry fieldsoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2008
Too much data for the browser window? Solution: iframeoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2008
You can't work out what the type of data is by looking at the data itselforiginal ↗
10 Apr 2008
Programming Languages: Is newer always better? (Part 2)original ↗
28 Mar 2008
Programming Languages: Is newer always better?original ↗
26 Mar 2008
Anti-aliased Polygon Filling Algorithmoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2008
IFS Fractal Programoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2008
Two great comments about Windowsoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2008
XML in the databaseoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2008
No need to support Safari 2 any moreoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2008
Monitors, as with everything else, need rebooting sometimesoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2008
Slowest ever response to a job application?original ↗
19 Feb 2008
Java gotcha: `anArray.hashCode()` isn't deep, but `aList.hashCode()` isoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2008
Creating an Iterator for a streaming JDBC ResultSet in Javaoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2008
The importance of remembering how to spell your nameoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2008
How to read row-by-row from a large MySQL table into Java, without running out of memoryoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2008
Which log levels to use when?original ↗
5 Feb 2008
Copy/paste between Excel and MSNoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2008
Why does my internet router have a "standby" button?original ↗
28 Jan 2008
Random unreproducable Tomcat error of the dayoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2008
Bosses used to be called "administrators"original ↗
17 Jan 2008
Web software front-end test casesoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2008
The cycle of programming languagesoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2008
New Year, New Blog (2008)original ↗
8 Jan 2008

2007

Domain-name search Firefox featureoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2007
Unbelievable PHP limitation of the dayoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2007
Vector graphics in the browseroriginal ↗
22 Nov 2007
`COUNT(*)` vs `COUNT(pk_col)`original ↗
19 Nov 2007
Sony support: Day 35 (approx)original ↗
26 Oct 2007
The CD Saga gets worseoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2007
Playing a CD on a computer is not as easy as one might imagineoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2007
Override configuration programmatically from unit testsoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2007
Java 5 enums can be compared with ==original ↗
6 Sept 2007
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