Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Month: February 2008

  • Tweets for Today

    09:19 Changing perspectives… Normally a log miner… Let's see what I can find database mining. # 09:44 Is that beeping me? # 10:20 w00t! Think I found the error logs i was seeking. Mining the database helped isolate the node, time, etc since usrs are keeping mum. # 13:29 Mmmmmm… Scope specification meeting # 15:22…

  • Happy New Year!

    It’s the Chinese Year of the Brown Earth Rat!

  • Tweets for Today

    08:05 @opticalserenity I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather. # 09:44 Reports and Tracking in the UI actually has MORE information than our SQL equivalent. Its only useful when UI rpts cannot run. # 10:11 Yay! I finally succeeded at being the Mean One. # 13:24 Rewriting SQL because lazy developers didn't think to give…

  • All Good Things

    A good one… It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. – Rene Descartes From Michelle so she can be quoted… If you don’t feel and don’t want…

  • Finding Sessions

    Clusters can making finding where a user was working a clusterf***. Users end up on a node, but they don’t know which node. Heck, we are ahead of the curve to get user name, date, and time. Usually checking all the nodes in the past few days can net you the sessions. Capturing the session…

  • Tweets for Today

    08:57 If Google is the new Microsoft, then does that make the founders Darth Page and Darth Brin? tinyurl.com/3yh3yz # 09:42 You can't make this stuff up: "should [the fire alarm] go off for some reason there is no reason to be alarmed." # 09:58 @dgcombs True… Stock in them is cool. A drop in…

  • User Interface v. SQL Reports and Tracking

    Blackboard Vista tracks student activity. This tracking data is viewed as a critical feature of Vista. Our instructors depended on the information until we revoked their ability to run reports themselves due to performance issues. Campus administrators can still generate reports (though some still fail). We doubt the solution to this is Blackboard improving the…

  • Tweets for Today

    11:34 Worst thing about APIs is we simply don't know (and can't image) how exposed user's private information can be. tinyurl.com/yux5of # 22:02 Sushi good. Company good. Hostess annoying waitress priceless. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter Read and post comments | Send to a friend

  • Who Is Benefiting From This?

    My employer does not pay for my cell phone or Internet service. When new administrators interview or schedule time a forum to talk to us, the question of them paying for one or both services usually is asked. Usually the response is something about it being complicated with a ton of paper work and an…