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Weekend past

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Today is Marine Day - a holiday in Japan. Many Japanese use this 3 day weekend to take family trips. This holiday is not set on a specific date, instead it always falls on the third Monday of July.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Day
So what did I do for this weekend? Ayako and I met a couple […]

KumaSafe Secure Password Storage - Free Download

Monday, May 11th, 2009

OK, this post is quite a bit different from most of my others, but every so often I’ll sneak a post in that is technical in nature (hey, my blog is “for-the-code!”).
Today’s post is a plug for a project that I’ve worked on in my spare time over many months. As many of you […]

Quick update, UNA - My Alma Mater

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Last few days have been busy. Ayako and I were both busy with work, and when we werent busy with work - we have been planning for this weekend’s trip to Maebashi, Gumma Japan. We will visit her parents, the place of her ancestors, and participate in Yuinou (i wrote about this previously). […]

System i SQL Record Locks and PHP

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

This is just a reply to a forum post I made some time ago. Thought it wise to save it here, lest I forget where it was at =)
Their response is what I was expecting - all db resources in the web world are generally destroyed between each request (the stateless-www). Unfortunately […]

Refactoring Vital to Software Engineering

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

I just wanted to point out that on my other blog ForTheCode.com (.com!) I recently posted about refactoring. Although it should have been on this site, its going to stay there for now - so as not to duplicate my efforts…
A snippet:
“Refactoring is a process of redesign that prevents software entropy, and was first […]