Jamie Ly

Jamie Ly

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Stikker

Some coworkers and I have been working on Stikker, a cli interface for the Stikked FOSS php pastebin. I haven’t used it for awhile, but we recently set it up at work to facilitate code sharing. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been updated recently and there are some things which are broken which I’ll need to address. […]
in Programming, Software | 69 Words

Short Juggling Exhibition

I’ve been working on the shower and reverse cascade. I’ll be continuing to practice 4-balls which is still iffy.
in Hobbies | 19 Words

Summary: The Checklist Manifesto – Introduction

Gawande’s friend tells him about a patient that came in with a stab wound. The doctors treat it like a normal wound, but it actually came from a bayonet, causing deep damage. No one had remembered to ask what the type of weapon was. He then asks Gawande to diagnose a patient who goes asystole […]
in Books | 82 Words

Summary: The Checklist Manifesto – How to Get Things Right Summary

The Checklist Manifesto – How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande Introduction The Problem of Extreme Complexity The Checklist The End of the Master Builder The Idea The First Try The Checklist Factory The Test The Hero in the Age of Checklists The Save Summary The book offers a lot of great anecdotes about […]
in Books | 280 Words

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

IronJS for JS.NET //icio.us/25dbil # Google AI Competition: TRON //icio.us/iaip3t # icons //icio.us/2gpss1 # Powered by Twitter Tools
in Twitter | 26 Words

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

IronJS for JS.NET //icio.us/25dbil # Google AI Competition: TRON //icio.us/iaip3t # icons //icio.us/2gpss1 # Powered by Twitter Tools
in Twitter | 26 Words

Ageism and Social Media

The following is from a discussion on LinkedIn. I provide some advice for the topic starter: Topic Starter How does one (me) reposition myself, as a presentation specialist and SEO analysis, while getting close to retirement, but with mature attitude/work ethic that gets results – quickly and under budget? Without being told, but seeing “youngster” […]
in Career, Social Science | 332 Words

CiteThis! Update 0.17

I modified CiteThis! with the following features this weekend: Added a citation list box, where you can queue all your citations. Removed the custom citation box from the preferences pane (it was not of use anymore) Fixed APA citation format to include last accessed date. Added some handling of author/titles: If title includes the host […]
in Software | 140 Words

SQL Pivot

A co-worker asked me about transposing a question response table. I came from a SQL 2000 background, so I was excited to play with the PIVOT command which is available in SQL 2005 and 2008.  It’s a common use case to transpose row-based data into columns. Sometimes it just makes more sense to people to […]
in Programming | 265 Words

Ruby Hiccups

I decided to try out some Ruby stuff this weekend. I wanted to do a quick little game with the rubygame gem, but I got some weird error attempting to install it on my 64-bit Snow Leopard Intel Mac Powerbook. I abandoned the effort, since I hate to expend time in system administration and installation. […]
in Libraries | 296 Words

ColdFusion Cheatsheet DateFormat TimeFormat

This is the start of a ColdFusion Cheatsheet. It contains mask options for DateFormat and TimeFormat. I plan to add to it as I find the need. ColdFusion Cheatsheet v0.001
in Programming Tools | 30 Words

Eclipse Dual Horizontal Window Editing

Here’s a method to setup dual-screen editing in eclipse. First, follow the instructions here to setup multiple editor windows: //addisu.taddese.com/blog/split-windowview-using-eclipse/ Basically, you select Window > New Editor, which will open the currently selected file again. You may have trouble at first, because it will be easier to create a vertical window than a horizontal. Drag […]
in Programming Tools | 96 Words

PHP joinr recursive

There was a recursive join function over at the join documentation on php.net. I wrote a version that was fully recursive on the delimiters, as well as more concise and understandable (IMO).
in Programming | 175 Words

CiteThis! Update 0.16

I made an update at the request of someone who e-mailed me.  This post describes this version: Custom citation formatting broken! (Will be addressed in next update.) Added variable citations depending on what fields are specified Added custom date formatting based on datejs Added custom handling of Wikipedia citations https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7972
in Software | 56 Words

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-03

I favorited a YouTube video — The Known Universe by AMNH //youtu.be/17jymDn0W6U?a # I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) — The Known Universe by AMNH //youtu.be/17jymDn0W6U?a # I favorited a YouTube video — Excite Bike Demo //youtu.be/-03o4dfQJ7w?a # //icio.us/exqvlo # //icio.us/0r3jfh # //icio.us/2nbea0 # //icio.us/yaevav # //icio.us/t1xqhj # //icio.us/4zhz3g # //icio.us/fbcay2 […]
in Twitter | 275 Words

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