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Implementing HAT-Tries in Java 2008-05-05 18:06:19 As I said in an earlier post detailing the CCHashTable, it formed a part of a larger data structure, the HAT-Trie. The HAT-Trie is a recent variant on the trie data structure, published by Askitis and Sinha in last year’s Australasian conference on Computer science (the original paper is here). The problem they were addressing [...]
Ubuntu upgrades and fundamental problems 2008-05-01 08:38:27 New job, new machine. So the last two days I’ve been setting up hardware platforms for work (one linux desktop machine, one win32 laptop, and some cool toys like an iPod Touch and a Nokia N800 - there are more to come, but it’s more than enough to start with). I’ve been using Kubuntu for [...] Read more:Ubuntu
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Tips for hiring new engineers 2008-04-25 11:20:45 Left dotMobi a few weeks back just after the DeviceAtlas project was successfully launched; took about three weeks to sleep (14-hour days for far too long to make the release date) and then starting back into the search for the next role. It was an interesting few weeks, and something I mentioned earlier about how [...]
The case against passion 2008-03-31 17:01:27 Something’s been bugging me lately. I’ve seen it said in otherwise intelligent blogs. I’ve seen it crop up more and more in resumes and job ads, to the point where it becomes something you have to say if you even want to be looked at, a piece of mindless dross taking up space on the [...] Read more:against
Cache conscious hash tables 2008-03-29 15:00:39 So one of the things I was working on as part of DeviceAtlas (but which ultimately didn’t get used) was a cache-conscious
hash table in Java. It’s not unique in design - in fact it comes right out of a research paper written for the SPIRE 2005 conference by Nikolas Askitis and Justin Zobel - [...]
s/365/364/ 2008-02-06 08:08:11 Hosting365 takes another nose-dive. Hosting364 is becoming more and more of an industry joke at this point. The last few crashes had unsatisfactory after-incident reports, and what little they showed demonstrated a lack of proper procedures (like testing machines to ensure that they recovered in the event of a power failure, or having redundant power [...]
Sun buys MySQL 2008-01-16 10:32:25 So Sun has splurged some $800 million in cash and taken up $200 million in options to purchase MySQL
AB. It’s somewhat of an odd move really. I mean, Sun’s got a decent reputation for open source stuff (not always linux-friendly, but “open source” does not mean “linux” after all). Java is now GPL’d, openSolaris [...]
Funny ha-ha-hangonwaitabloodyminute… 2008-01-08 04:16:14 Some things have a real Dilbert type of humour to them. Every engineer and programmer out there knows exactly what I mean, but for the non-engineer, non-programmer types, allow me to summarise what the Dilbert type of humour is by describing it as the kind of humour you laugh at right up the point where [...] Read more:Funny
Multiple databases in Drupal 2008-01-04 04:47:57 Have to say, while MDB2 has the more straightforward way of accessing multiple databases (just create more database objects using MDB2::factory()), drupal’s way of doing things is a long way from horrible.
To initialise:
$db_url['default'] = ‘mysql://drupal:drupal@localhost/drupal’;
$db_url['mydb'] = ‘mysql://user:pwd@localhost/anotherdb’;
$db_url['db3'] = ‘mysql://user:pwd@localhost/yetanotherdb’;
And then to use:
db_set_active('mydb');
db_query('SELECT * FROM table_in_anotherdb');
//Switch back to the [...] Read more:Multiple
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