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I actually planned a full-fledged single-player campaign for Stainless, before I came to my senses and downgraded it to a much simpler multiplayer game. However, I'm still considering a short (2-4 hours) campaign. What I have in mind is similar to Valve's strategy with Left 4 Dead : a short, highly replayable campaign designed for 2-4 players. With one catch: the players are fighting against each other. With my limited marketing and br..
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Three times in recent years I’ve had to micromanage others. Though probably in the contrary form to what you would expect. Most people think of micromanagement as their manager wanting to know every detail about their day, and be involved in every minute task. In most cases this form of micromanagement is never received well. Generally my feelings are that if I have to micromanage you, you don’t belong in the role you’re in, though I suppos....
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Three times in recent years I’ve had to micromanage others. Though probably in the contrary form to what you would expect. Most people think of micromanagement as their manager wanting to know every detail about their day, and be involved in every minute task. In most cases this form of micromanagement is never received well. Generally my feelings are that if I have to micromanage you, you don’t belong in the role you’re in, though I suppos....
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A $600,000 grant from NASA has been awarded to Auburn University’s College of Sciences and Mathematics in association with the Alabama Department of Education…
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NOTICE: To all businesses with a single physical location and a web site. You will put your address, phone number, and business hours on your home page. There will not be a "Contact" page. There will not be an "About" page. END OF NOTICE
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One of my favorite articles of the year was when one of the Toomer’s Ten late night transport buses was stolen.
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As promised. :) First, a small disclaimer. This network system is designed for a very specific task: handling networked physics/gameplay over a LAN network. The structure described here might be useful in other scenarios, but the actual Python code is certainly not fit for much else. The system follows a modified Model-View-Controller pattern that focuses on two main types of objects: Entities and Controllers. The "View" part is split b..
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After a lot of hard work and learning I have now finished making a complete new version of my Clesto CMS. It is still flat file based without a database and now it has both visual editor and HTML editor for making the pages - similar to that of Wordpress. Focus has been to make [...]
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After a lot of hard work and learning I have now finished making a complete new version of my Clesto CMS. It is still flat file based without a database and now it has both visual editor and HTML editor for making the pages - similar to that of Wordpress. Focus has been to make [...]
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So flash videos are everywhere now. Generally as they load they show some spinning wheel type graphic. The problem is as an end user, I have no visual differentiation between a video that is loading slowly and a video sitting there waiting for TCP from an overloaded server that is simply never going to work, and certainly not in a timeframe smaller than my attention budget. Show me whether or not you are getting any data, and I might be wil..
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Suzanne Repress, a legislative liaison for Children’s Health System in Birmingham, discusses the health care bill with Opelika residents: Rod Guajardo/
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Wow, so many updates to cover. I've been without internet for awhile, so... deal with it. :) Let's start with a list of new improvements: Networked gameplay is now fully functional. Weapons, grenades, springboards that propel players around the map, it's all there. I'll make a bigger post one of these days that describes the whole system in more detail. It was quite educational for me, and I'll still be modifying it for awhile. The main....
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Java: Always explicitly specify which XML parser to use
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16 years ago
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There is the following design error in Java (at least in Servlets): A server may serve multiple applications; each application may use different libraries or even different versions of the same library, “side by side”. XML parsers, transformers (XSLT), etc., have a standard interface, and there may be different implementations of this interface from different vendors, open-source projects, etc. Which XML parser, transformed etc. is actual..
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KGL simulator, shared pool simulator and buffer cache simulator – what are these?
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tanelpoder.com
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16 years ago
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If you have queried v$sgastat on recent Oracle versions (by which I mean 9i and above) you probably have seen allocations for some sort of simulators in Oracle instance. Here’s an example: SQL> select * from v$sgastat where lower(name) like '% sim %' order by name; POOL NAME BYTES ------------ -------------------------- ---------- shared pool kglsim alloc latch area 1700 shared pool kglsim alloc latches 68 shared pool kglsim count o....
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KGL simulator, shared pool simulator and buffer cache simulator – what are these?
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tanelpoder.com
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16 years ago
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If you have queried v$sgastat on recent Oracle versions (by which I mean 9i and above) you probably have seen allocations for some sort of simulators in Oracle instance. Here’s an example: SQL> select * from v$sgastat where lower(name) like '% sim %' order by name; POOL NAME BYTES ------------ -------------------------- ---------- shared pool kglsim alloc latch area 1700 shared pool kglsim alloc latches 68 shared pool kglsim count o....
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Derren Brown correctly predicted the winning lottery numbers and put the feat down to a complex mathematical formula. According to the illusionist and hypnotist, he gathered 24 people who wrote down their predictions after studying last year’s numbers. All guesses were then averaged - added up and divided by 24. The “wisdom of the crowd” theory suggests that a large group of people making average guesses will get the correct figure as an av..
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An Introduction is to introduce people” so rather than to introduce my “Lab” I really ought to introduce myself. Well then, here goes: Hello, I’m Murphy, and I am a Ph.D. student. I’m student of science — chemistry in particular — and of life. I like to think about Questions, big and small. Being a “Lab” means that this is really about experimenting with ideas. Thought experiments? Perhaps. Even just seeing where the questions and answers l..
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KGH: NO ACCESS allocations in V$SGASTAT – buffer cache within shared pool!
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tanelpoder.com
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16 years ago
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Since Oracle 10.2 it’s valid to say that buffer cache can be stored inside shared pool. Now you may think I’m crazy, but read until the end of the post – no matter how crazy I may sound – I have proof ! Here it is: Few years ago I started noticing a strange memory allocation in shared pool (in V$SGASTAT), called KGH: NO ACCESS . SQL> select * from v$sgastat where name = 'KGH: NO ACCESS'; POOL NAME BYTES ------------ -------------..
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KGH: NO ACCESS allocations in V$SGASTAT – buffer cache within shared pool!
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tanelpoder.com
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16 years ago
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Since Oracle 10.2 it’s valid to say that buffer cache can be stored inside shared pool. Now you may think I’m crazy, but read until the end of the post – no matter how crazy I may sound – I have proof ! Here it is: Few years ago I started noticing a strange memory allocation in shared pool (in V$SGASTAT), called KGH: NO ACCESS . SQL> select * from v$sgastat where name = 'KGH: NO ACCESS'; POOL NAME BYTES ------------ -------------..
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I couldn't find any resources on setting up WYSIWYGPro with Cake so I developed this helper along with instructions for total integration with your system. If you've never used WYSIWYGPro, you should check out the demos. I've tried every WYSIWYG editor out there and none of the other ones even come close as far as I'm concerned.
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While working with the date/time input fields in Cake I got tired of having to select 3/6 drop down boxes to choose all of the date/time information and specifically of having to select 3/6 drop down boxes if I decided to clear the date. A little bit of jQuery will clear this right up though.
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If you've spent anytime wanting to use ACL on your applications, you know how tedious it can be to manually enter your entire controller and action structure. This Task will handle finding and loading or updating all of those for you whenever you run it from the command line.
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Cake has a wonderful shell script function built into it called extract that will run through your code and create a .po file full of all of the text contained within your __('My text here') calls. You can then pass these files onto to translators to modify them for your languages. When you want to add variables though, you have to break it up into pieces which may change the context of the phrase. Here's a way around that.
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PublishableBehavior allows the use of datetime fields for start and end ranges on content. Included functionality allows for checking published status, toggling to published / unpublished status, and adding conditions to a find to properly filter those results.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has questioned whether funds allocated to Baldwin County were used properly for post-hurricane cleanup.
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Most of my working career has been in what many would call an enterprise environment. Corporate structure well in place at most of them and in those cases any development followed closely to a waterfall methodology. You laid out requirements strictly and then built to those requirements. You essentially had nothing to show until you got to the end product. Having been in the valley for several years and interacting with some startups and ....
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Most of my working career has been in what many would call an enterprise environment. Corporate structure well in place at most of them and in those cases any development followed closely to a waterfall methodology. You laid out requirements strictly and then built to those requirements. You essentially had nothing to show until you got to the end product. Having been in the valley for several years and interacting with some startups and ....
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This Norwegian language article introduces a short two-page guide I’ve written to explain Scrum to people who’ve only just heard of it. I samarbeid med våre dyktige redaksjonelle medarbeidere på Steria, har jeg forfattet en “3 minutters guide” til Scrum. Denne tar for seg spørsmålene som “hva er egentlig Scrum”. [caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“360” caption=“Dette er Scrum”][/caption] 3-minutterguidene kan lastes ned fra Sterias hjem..
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Something I learned very early on in my working career, not so much from my experiences but from observing the results of others, was to engage at a social level as early possible. This doesn’t mean you have to take time after 5:00 to get to know someone, the best opportunity exists every single day during what you would already do, lunch! Everyone usually takes a break and eats lunch during the day, usually there’s two groups in an office.....
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Something I learned very early on in my working career, not so much from my experiences but from observing the results of others, was to engage at a social level as early possible. This doesn’t mean you have to take time after 5:00 to get to know someone, the best opportunity exists every single day during what you would already do, lunch! Everyone usually takes a break and eats lunch during the day, usually there’s two groups in an office.....
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Every Scrum-team should use their taskboard to support their particular way of working. I’d like to share the way we use our taskboard at my current project for your inspiration. [caption id=“attachment_447” width=“300” caption=“Colored ink, paper and makers support team process”][/caption] When I started my current project I went to pick up sticky notes and marker pens for the taskboard. I grabbed, more or less at random three colors of no..
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My colleagues have just released a feature on www.easyname.eu where I work – it’s an automated domain-registration and web-hosting service – that you can “ssh” (log in) to your easyname filespace account. I think that’s cool – I don’t know of many web hosting companies where that feature is offered! (I didn’t program the feature – neither the front-end nor the back-end – but I just released it, so I would have been responsible for any p..
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Morgan Thacker/ Associate Photo Editor Most people who have ventured downtown at night realize that parking spots are scarce.
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Creo que es la primera vez que posteo sobre una aplicación, pero creo que en este caso merece la pena hacerlo. Se trata de GNU HttpTunnel, una pequeña aplicación que crea un túnel HTTP sobre el que podemos meter cualquier servicio. ¿Ventajas? Pues que al ser HTTP, si nos encontramos en una red que solo tiene salida a Internet mediante un proxy HTTP, con esta aplicación (y un PC fuera de la red), podemos salir de la red con el servicio que m....
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Oracle 11gR2 has been released – and with column oriented storage option
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tanelpoder.com
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16 years ago
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You may already have noticed that Oracle 11gR2 for Linux is available for download on Oracle.com website, with documentation . And this document ends speculation about whether Oracle 11.2 will support column-oriented storage – yes it will: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle11g/pdf/oracle-database-11g-release2-overview.pdf However, this is apparently available on Exadata storage only as a new error message b..
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Oracle 11gR2 has been released – and with column oriented storage option
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tanelpoder.com
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16 years ago
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You may already have noticed that Oracle 11gR2 for Linux is available for download on Oracle.com website, with documentation . And this document ends speculation about whether Oracle 11.2 will support column-oriented storage – yes it will: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle11g/pdf/oracle-database-11g-release2-overview.pdf However, this is apparently available on Exadata storage only as a new error message b..
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Box Full of Angels is a fictional operating system based on a paper by Aaron Sachs (Assistant Professor of Media, Technologies, and Culture at Saint Mary’s College of California) concerning the influence of religious belief on the writings of Marshall McLuhan and Walter Benjamin. I created this Flash application as a digital edition of his […]
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A DDoS attack is a Distributed Denial of Service . To understand the basics, I'll explain a DoS attack in the simplistic of definitions so you may understand a DDoS. There are plenty of sub-categories for a DoS attack, but for the purpose of this post I'll
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latch: cache buffers chains latch contention – a better way for finding the hot block
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tanelpoder.com
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16 years ago
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Here's a treat for Oracle performance professionals and geeks who are looking for more systematic ways for cache buffers chains (CBC) latch contention troubleshooting. Cache buffers chains latches are taken when a process wants to walk through a cache buffer hash chain, looking if the block with required DBA (data block address) is in buffer cache. If the block happens to be in cache, then in most cases it has to be pinned first before use ..
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latch: cache buffers chains latch contention – a better way for finding the hot block
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tanelpoder.com
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16 years ago
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eng
Here's a treat for Oracle performance professionals and geeks who are looking for more systematic ways for cache buffers chains (CBC) latch contention troubleshooting. Cache buffers chains latches are taken when a process wants to walk through a cache buffer hash chain, looking if the block with required DBA (data block address) is in buffer cache. If the block happens to be in cache, then in most cases it has to be pinned first before use ..
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