As a first exercise in Python, I decided to create a directory backup script. Here's the resulting solution.
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BackupSynchronizer: a Simple Directory Backup and Synchronization Script in Python
WP Hide Post: WordPress Plugin
The WP Hide Post plugin enables the author to write posts/pages that are hidden on the homepage, feeds and/or other places, but still visible to search engines. This is a great tool for SEO.
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900GB USB Drive
A friend of mine went to China recently and brought back a SONY, VAIO-branded USB 2.0 drive with a startling 900GB capacity.
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Wolfram|Alpha Computational Search Engine
Wolfram|Alpha, a "Computational Search Engine", will launch on May 18, giving people access to a wealth of "computable" facts and algorithms. It takes queries in simple English and produces all sorts of results in the form of tables, charts and diagrams.
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Google Maps Alphabet
An interesting effort from Australia to locate the 26-letter English alphabet on Google Maps.
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Google Goats
Google Inc. has hired 200 goats to graze its fields to eat grass and weeds and to fertilize the soil as a low-carbon alternative to mowing lawn.
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Go Chrome… and Never Look Back
Once I tried the Google Chrome browser I was impressed with its speed and lightweight impact on the system resources. In spite of the essential features that it still lacks, it's currently my default browser.
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Timing Queries and Scripts in PL/SQL
Motivation Logging is an essential feature in any software, be it during development or after release to production. One feature that I found lacking in Oracle PL/SQL is a portable, built-in facility to help developers track execution times of blocks of code/SQL. I found that SQL*PLUS has some built-in functions that provide support for...
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HIVE: a Data Warehousing Framework on top of hadoop
I came across this new project under the apache umbrella, dubbed Hive, related to the hadoop initiative which implements a data warehouse infrastructure that takes advantage of the core MapReduce hadoop libraries to create a query execution engine for large scale data processing. The project is still in its early development stages, but the...
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Joel on Software
In this book, Joel Spolsky is an iconoclast par excellence. He relentlessly refutes many of the absurdly sacred tenants that are touted by many software developers as absolute truths, in his down-to-earth tell-it-like-it-is way.
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