Category Archives: Rants

Oracle…

Working with Oracle is always an adventure. The error messages are usually not very helpful, so you have to guess a lot. What I’ve seen today is an extreme though. Oracle allows you to create a table with a column … Continue reading

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Mercurial, part 1

I’ve been using Mercurial at work for two months now and the expectations I had about it didn’t change to anything better. I guess it looks cool for people who are used to SVN, or even CVS, and are not … Continue reading

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Technical book authors

To be honest, I don’t read technical books much. I prefer reading the official documentation for a product I need to work with, or use some other ways to get information about it. I always assumed people who write such … Continue reading

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Stack Overflow Careers

When I have some free time and I’m bored, I try to help people at Stack Overflow.  Recently the owners of Stack Overflow launched a site where you can post your CV, which are linked to your Stack Overflow account, … Continue reading

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