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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Watching live I/O: iotop
Yet another awesome top clone for Linux, this time to make monitoring disk I/O simple: iostat. This post over at MDLog has a great introduction and explanation. For me it was available with apt-get, as iostat. Then you just run … Continue reading
MySQL Bootcamp: Highly recommended!
I was able to attend the MySQL Bootcamp this week, and it was incredible. Instructors David Swain and George Trujillo really knew their stuff, and they did an admirable job sharing their experience and knowledge. They were an interesting pair, … Continue reading
Read It Later: Now!
Co-worker and fellow informational transmogrifer Trevor Rosen told me about a Firefox plugin called Read It Later a while back. For some reason, I didn’t really start using it for a while. After having watched the demo video for the … Continue reading
Joining a table to itself in MySQL
Joining a table to itself is a technique that, while moderately painful to contemplate, can prove quite valuable in making certain updates possible. Consider an example case where we have a table containing various company names, some of which actually … Continue reading
Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science
Dr. John Zelle‘s book Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science is a fun and thoughtful introduction to computer science, using Python as the vehicle of example and experiment. Thus two useful skills are engendered together, without becoming overly mired … Continue reading