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169 Kanji and growing

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Its true, I’ve committed myself to learning Japanese Kanji. Some of you might be saying “It’s about time”, others might say “Why bother?”.
Well, I’ve been in school full-time for the past 2 years all while working 50+ hours a week. So time has been scarce - and until now I’ve only managed to […]

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 […]