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{ Monthly Archives } May 2008

Announcing my Todo manager project

I’ve started a simple TODO type application, basically a task manager that goes something like this:

Project

Tasks

Task Items

Milestones (which are a collection of Tasks)

It’s being developed for a few reasons, none of them involve filling a niche in the commercial arena (there are a ton of these type of apps). First, I need to get more [...]

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I think you’re lying

I was trying to upload my gem version the easy way
jaredlaptop:Downloads jared$ sudo gem install rubygems-update-1.1.1.gem
Successfully installed rubygems-update, version 1.1.1
jaredlaptop:Downloads jared$ gem -v
0.9.4
jaredlaptop:~ jared$ i hate you
-bash: i: command not found

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Greasemonkey script to make experts-exchange tolerable

I quickly wrote this Greasemonkey script (or Greasekit if you’re using Safari) to remove a bunch of crap from experts-exchange to make it somewhat tolerable to look at. It uses jQuery because I like it. It would be a lot more efficient to include the implementation of the method I’m using in my script rather [...]

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How to drop all tables in Oracle

Handy little snippet to drop all tables in a database by user.

SELECT 'DROP TABLE ' || table_name || ' CASCADE CONSTRAINTS;' FROM user_tables;

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Do programmer have a fear of commitment? Database commits that is

Every now and then you’ll see my throw up my hands in frustration and mutter something “why aren’t you showing up!” It’s a common scenario, you insert some data directly into the database, command+tab over to your favorite web browser with your application already loaded up, hit refresh…record doesn’t show up. Where is it!!! Well, [...]

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