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After the subtle washing and drying of my previous phone, a Motorola SLVR, it was time to pony up for the next generation. For me at least. Welcome an unlocked N95 from MobilePlanet. UK plugs but I can live with that. Summary of the first 12 hours: -wifi connection to our WPA2 Personal network, [...]
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Annotations have undoubtedly been a breath of fresh air since coming onto the Java scene, but here’s one big slap in the face which you can’t help but feel is totally unwarranted. I’m talking about mixing your field and method annotations in Hibernate. This really bares its ugly head when annotating relationships. Let’s have a look-see at [...]
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I recently attended a PostgreSQL Administration Course put on by the Open Technology Group in Morrisville NC. The course was excellent, covering a wide range of administrative PG tasks, and I learned lots of tricks and gotchas that I wish I knew many years ago when I first started using postgres. Our Instructor Chander Ganesan The [...]
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In mid-March I attended a PostgreSQL Administration Course put on by the Open Technology Group http://www.otg-nc.com in Morrisville NC. Our instructor Chander Ganesan took us through the full gamut of PostgreSQL administration and configuration, from manual installation to performance tuning to third-party replication tools. Our course covered items such as secure access, user management, [...]
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