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Oracle…

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

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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Fun with timestamps

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

Some programming languages really encourage using UNIX timestamps for working with dates. PHP is a good example of such a language. Functions like date, strtotime, strftime are used all the time. Most people don’t realize that timestamps in general can’t … Continue reading →

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Mercurial, part 1

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

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

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

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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Disabling sound in GDM

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

I often have to turn on my laptop in a situation when I need it to be quiet. It’s easy to disable the login sound in GNOME, but in the new Ubuntu release it became quite hard to disable the … Continue reading →

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