Mar 30, 2005
If you find yourself at Hyperion’s Solutions 2005 in New Orleans next month be sure to check out my friend Jenever Springer’s presentation on “Creating a Financial Reporting Environment with Hyperion Essbase”. Do your best, Google!
Nov 11, 2004
If your application is logging events to a file, chances are that you often find yourself using tail to monitor that file. If you are using a logging library, chances are that your logging events are classified in differing orders of severity. Wouldn’t it be nice to make severe errors readily apparent? … Read more
Oct 6, 2004
Jim Monroe, author of Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, Angry Young Spaceman, Everyone in Silico and An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil is in the process of switching over to Linux:
With Windows I would assume the problem was me — my settings, my hardware, whatever — … Read more
May 5, 2004
This sounds fun. Joe Gregorio of Bitworking has issued a Pascal String Challenge which requests weblog entries of precisely 255 characters. Those who programmed in Borland Pascal will remember that strings could be no larger than 255 characters in size.
Nov 14, 2003
An online poll recently appeared on The Globe And Mail website asking the question “Do you vote in on-line polls?”. The best part is that some people chose the “no” option.