urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight Your Home For Snappy Repartee 應龍 urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20071206.1613 2007-12-06T21:13:00 2007-12-06T21:13:00 2007-12-06T21:13:00 <p> New job starting next Wednesday. I have a good vibe about it. In the interview they were asking me the right sort of questions about Perl. It involves working with Perl in a Linux/SQL/Apache environment which makes me feel like a fish in water. The pay is good too. I will be working hard for the next few months.</p> <p> I have to think up a secret code name for them. I never really cared for Company 2 as a codename. Nor for the company really.</p> urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20070117.1655 2007-01-17T21:55:00 2007-01-17T21:55:00 2007-01-17T21:55:00 <p>Jay, who is the only contact I have at the new grander IdeaBank sends me an e-mail this morning:</p> <blockquote> <pre>If I insert a new row into the quote table is there anything I have to do to make it work in queries?? INSERT INTO quote VALUES ( 'Kazoo<NDINO/><NBARNEY/><NSLATE/>', 'kazoo:dino:barney:slate:wilma:fred:betty', (SELECT MAX(id)+1 FROM quote), 'kazoo dino barney slate', 'kazoo dino barney slate wilma fred betty' ); We ran this, and when we do a search (from the web site) on kazoo or slate it isn't found.</pre></blockquote> <p>To which I responded with... well actually I didn’t respond, and in case anyone else is wondering: no I won’t do your homework for you either. This guy is getting paid to do this, but if I saw this on a newsgroup I would strongly suspect the guy was trying to get someone to do his homework for him. That is how good his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">SQL</a> is.</p> <p>Also, maybe you shouldn’t be tinkering with a production server that you know nothing about? Definitely feeling the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude">Schadenfreude</a></i> when I connected to the website and the dynamic content was broken due to a server configuration error. But then, that is what you get when you buy custom software and hire some hack with no experience in the languages it was written in to run it instead of the original author who knows it better than anyone.</p> <p>If it were Chuck still in charge, I would probably give Jay some pointers (I actually know why it isn’t working from the snippet he provided), but I have no loyalty to (or compensation from) this company, and definitely not to Jay.</p> urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20041205.1810 2004-12-05T23:10:00 2004-12-05T23:10:00 2004-12-05T23:10:00 Here is what a computer geek I am: while I was waiting to go over to brad's house for the Festivus last night I coded up a search engine for my web site using a SQL database and some perl. I don't really need one, I can grep for anything I want since I direct access to the files, and I don't get enough traffic to make it useful for anyone. It just seemed like an interesting thing to do. It may also have to do with the fact that in the winter months in New York, I don't really like to be outside when it's dark and cold. <BR><BR> See that little box up there by the twilight icon at the top of this page? Put in some text and type &lt;ENTER&gt; to find what you are looking for. For example, if you put "bradstock" in there you will find everything I have written about the annual back yard bash on my website. <BR><BR> I am going to go find something useful to do with myself.