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Dan Crowder: Temporary Tables, SubQueries and Removing Duplicate Records - MySQL 5

nospam@example.com (Dan Crowder) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:30:14 -0400

Dan,

You are absolutely correct and I should have stated this within my post; the described steps within the post SHOULD NOT be performed on a database used in production or even remotely.

If working remotely, please make a backup of your table or database and make sure that the connection to your server is a reliable one.

If you are hesitant about the connection dropping export your table and import it locally onto your own server. make your updates, export and import back into your db. This is the approach that I STRONGLY RECOMMEND.

Dan Miahiu: Temporary Tables, SubQueries and Removing Duplicate Records - MySQL 5

nospam@example.com (Dan Miahiu) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:45:04 -0400

i wouldnt recomand this at all, because if something happens and the conection is lost u will have your data lost if the event happens after deletion from your main table

Owen: HOWTO: Use Eclipse PDT with Subversion in 13 Easy Steps

nospam@example.com (Owen) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:42:54 -0400

PDT syntax highlighting support does not seem to work when subclipse is installed, any one else had this problem?

Oscar Merida: Something To Do Before You Unit Test

nospam@example.com (Oscar Merida) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:56:12 -0400

I didn't mean to imply that you were bashing unit tests.

Sandy: Something To Do Before You Unit Test

nospam@example.com (Sandy) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:52:06 -0400

My point isn't to bash unit tests, but rather to say there are a bunch of things you should be doing before you get around to writing your unit tests. It's a maturity model for PHP: at some point you're writing test-first, fully documented code with peer review, version control, and a rabbi's blessing. But before you get there, you should be doing basic things like sanity checking all your input and testing for errors. And if you skip those basic things, you're not going to have the right frame of mind to write the kinds of tests that will save you down the line.

Oscar Merida: Something To Do Before You Unit Test

nospam@example.com (Oscar Merida) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:43:46 -0400

I agree with, what I think is, the gist of your argument. That is, if you don't write code that anticipates failure, you're not going to write good unit tests either.

Unit tests help in making you think about the design of your code and its components, promotes coupling items loosely, and requires adding new tests when new bugs are found or features added.

William: An easy improvement to your site's usability

nospam@example.com (William) — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:17:52 -0400

Navigation links should fill their container to ensure ease of selection. A good method for that is to make them display: block in CSS.

Matt: On Choosing to Program Well

nospam@example.com (Matt) — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:35:42 -0400

One of the better comments I've seen in a while: "Although I like PHP, I agree the language is only as good as the person that writes the code."

If Jeff Atwood wanted tons of page views by posting such a raging post, then mission accomplished. Many of the "PHP sucks" references (e.g. http://www.bitstorm.org/edwin/en/php/) are horribly out of date. He clearly wanted the controversy part to take precedence over the whole, "it doesn't matter because PHP gets the job done" part.

There has been and will always be bad PHP code written by inexperienced coders. Like with life in general, more power and flexibility means greater potential for bad things to happen.

PHP isn't a perfect language. It has its flaws, just like every other language, but at the end of the day, I feel as though the language is on my side (and not working against me)... and that's all I could ask for.

Matt: Calais: Worth the Hype?

nospam@example.com (Matt) — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:03:22 -0400

Oscar,

Yahoo's Term Extraction service takes an entire article and returns a few of (what it thinks are) the most important terms.

As Tom mentioned, Calais goes above and beyond by figuring out and adding term metadata (entity, fact, event) based on the term's value AND how that term fits with the rest of the text.

Tom Tague: Calais: Worth the Hype?

nospam@example.com (Tom Tague) — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:13:54 -0400

Hi, Tom Tague from Calais here.

First, thanks for taking note of Calais. And integrating an example right within the article is very cool.

A couple of expansions to your note.
Calais is all about extracting semantic metadata from your text. By semantic metadata we mean entities (people, places, things) facts (like the fact that Bush is the President extracted from your example) and events (An event of type “Natural Disaster” of type “Landslide” occurred at place x at time y).

Given that Calais is based on a sophisticated natural language processing engine – it will always do better when enough content is provided for it to do a thorough analysis. For example – a short news article or a blog posting.

One other key point - Calais does named entity extraction – meaning it knows that a “thing” is a person, company, etc. This allows you to do very sophisticated work beyond just tagging. A simple example: if you had a body of news articles, processed them with Calais and put them in something like SAS or Excel you could ask a question like “Who are the top 10 CEOs mentioned in context of articles about a merger or acquisition?” You can’t do that with search or basic entity extraction.

Again, thanks for the notice and cool demonstration.

Oscar: Calais: Worth the Hype?

nospam@example.com (Oscar) — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:03:24 -0400

How does this compare to Yahoo!'s Term Extraction Service?

Sandy: HOWTO: Use Eclipse PDT with Subversion in 13 Easy Steps

nospam@example.com (Sandy) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:43:31 -0400

Hi Vikram--

Have you set up your repository in Subversive and successfully connected?

vikram: HOWTO: Use Eclipse PDT with Subversion in 13 Easy Steps

nospam@example.com (vikram) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:56:40 -0400

On checkout as.. dialog you asked to choose "Check out as a project configured using the New Project Wizard." That option and one below that is grayed out for me. I have subversive installed.

Mark: HOWTO: Use Eclipse PDT with Subversion in 13 Easy Steps

nospam@example.com (Mark) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:06:19 -0400

Excellent post, very detailed and I especially like the images.

It helped me a lot with my set up.

Lawrence Licaros: Terms of Service - not an April Fool's Joke

nospam@example.com (Lawrence Licaros) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:55:53 -0400

How can they say that they're "not responsible" for "death, personal injury, or severe property or environmental damage"???

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