Published 11 January 2011
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Just like Julian Assange is jumping from country to country, brothel to brothel, being hunted like a heretic, my uptime project is sending me from one job to another, programming to web design to server admin to flash design.. well the flash design has yet to come, and I don't look forward to that day!
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Published 6 January 2011
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Whilst working on my new uptime and latency monitoring project, I've ran into more than the usual amount of SQL conundrums, and I am learning a lot by having higher than normal requirements. To call yourself a programmer, I think you have to at least have basic SQL skills. They are your basic math skills for normal people, every coder should understand select, insert, update and delete.. and for a long time I was one of them, I hated SQL because I didn't understand it, or didn't want to.. but needing it, and needing it to do advanced things, means you need to learn, and it truly saves you time when you can cut out so much coding by offloading onto SQL!
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Published 1 January 2011
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The following is awesome SQL. I will right now tell you, I don't like SQL. I admire it, but I don't like it. So SQL is a bit like Alan Sugar in that respect. But what I had to do, or well, what I've just done, is something very important and vital to making my medium-secret project more efficient.
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Published 29 December 2010
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collections
So the project I am currently working on will have a list of servers (nodes) stored in a generic list (for now), and the node controller will need to cycle through these and send out a request to each one before getting back to the original one. This way, the load can be balanced out among the various nodes.
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Published 29 December 2010
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Just come across something I haven't needed before, a property read-only from the outside, but writeable from the inside.. I present to you the private set property!
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