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    Oracle Ingress and Postgres

    In response to this:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/24/ingres_and_open_source/Hi Philip,Speaking as someone who has jumped from Oracle to Postgres, mostly for cost reasons, I'm curious about what the relationship is between Ingres and Postgres.

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 29 March 2005

    Converting Java XML to PHP XML

    Thought I might make some notes about this to help the next person along.Firstly, PHP5 on windows just has the XML SAX parser installed by default so, even though there is a PEAR XML library, you don't need it.AttributesThe Java classes have a org.xm

    Comments (0) . Monday, 28 March 2005

    Got my vote

    If you want to see a very coherent and logical explanation of why software patents are such ridiculous nonsense see http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/3/9/93357/91614.Can you imagine a world where the particular genius of your favorite author's rende

    Comments (0) . Sunday, 13 March 2005

    PHP

    Got talked into looking at PHP rather than Python.I really like it: it's got a lot of the lovely features of the unix shell (heredocument and `), you can have nice structures likeif ( cond ) : exprendifSo you can block your code properly. I have alw

    Comments (0) . Monday, 7 March 2005

    Mail to Paul Graham

    In response to thisOK PaulYou've persuaded me to look at Python. I must admit I use Gawk a lotand I've made my windows XP machine into a Linux one by installingCyngwin. I use Vim all the time, I find the way the vi navigation letsme get to the end of

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 2 March 2005