I gave a presentation at SQL Saturday 710 that didn’t go as well as I liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working). For those that attended thank you for patience. Hopefully it was still worth attending and the discussion without the live coding was worth while.
Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show you what was supposed to happen during the demo. The source code for the demo is here.
[Read More]Working on my code example for my upcoming SQL Saturday 710 talk I ran into a performance issue. My laptop is an older MacBook Pro and I was trying to run my example on a Windows virtual machine…
What is SQL Saturday? Good question.
SQL Saturday is an entire day of talks, training, and socializing about databases and data storage. SQL Saturday 710 is on May 5th in Edmonton but there are SQL Saturdays, with different numbers at the end, all around the world on different dates.
[Read More]In the above video you can replace the question with:
Chris, have created that Ruby on Rails 5 project?
What dose it look like I’m Doing!
Scene 1: Create new Ruby on Rails project using Ruby Mine.
Scene 2: Try to install the Gems find out I need Ruby 2.5.
[Read More]I have a Synology NAS that has starting acting up. By acting up I mean I can’t connect to it and it requires a unplugged reboot to fix it. Power button no work. After doing some detective work I’m not sure if the problem is with the hard drives or the Synology it’s self.
To help me narrow down the problem I thought I’d run SpinRite which is a hard drive diagnostic tool. I heard about SpinRite from the Security Now podcast. It was created by Steve Gibson, one of the hosts and they talk about it’s virtues often on the podcast.
[Read More]I’m on optimist and generally think things will work out for the best. I like to say:
The future is awesome!
That said it’s easy to forget how awesome individual days can be. How many small but amazing things occur each day that we gloss over. Our day is 99% good and 1% bad but we focus on that one minor bad moment.
Think about your conversations at the end of the day. Does it focus on the negatives of the day? That boozo that cut me off in traffic. The Internet was down for 5 minutes. I had to stay at work 10 minutes late. Etc.
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