Archive for January, 2005

It’s-Over Time

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Overtime is what people do to get the job done when 40 hours a week is not enough. Often times I’m not the first guy to claim overtime unless it occurs in 3-hour blocks or more. I don’t count minutes and think dollar signs. I count goals. Sometimes I have to […]

Oracle

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

I’ve been drumming on Oracle for a while trying to merge a PHP-MySQL application’s data with data available from an Oracle database server running on VMS.
I’ve learned about views, stored procedures, query efficiency and adodb as a result of my pains. I’ve been trying to use $db->Prepare() to do a query for a set […]

Amputated

Friday, January 14th, 2005

“There was a time I could see. And I have seen. Boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn’t nothin’ like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that. You think you’re merely sending this splendid foot soldier back home to Oregon […]