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Archive for June, 2007

dhSQLite - now with FTS2 and VB UDFs

Posted in ETL, SQLite, VBA, data on June 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Datenhaus has just released a new version of dhSQLite based on the latest SQLite 2.4.0 3.4.0 engine which according to www.sqlite.org…
…fixes two separate bugs either of which can lead to database corruption. Upgrading is strongly recommended…
This version of dhSQLite has the FTS2 module compiled in, which adds full-text indexing to SQLite. Version 1.2 also [...]

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RoR Data Warehouse on EC2

Posted in EC2, ETL, Ruby, data, tagged , on June 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »

If you’ve been putting off evaluating Ruby on Rails and you’re lucky enough to have an Amazon EC2 beta account then it’s your lucky day. Paul Dowman has just made a public AMI (think of it like a virtual machine spec from which you can create a running EC2 instance) with various [...]

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CRM - How not to do it …

Posted in news, tagged on June 21, 2007 | No Comments »

Having been through a lost luggage experience myself in the past I can understand Damein Mullvey’s frustration and anger.
Sky Handling Partners “handling” of the issue would make a good example of how not to deal with an irate customer when that customer is also a prominent blogger. And now this ….

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Zimki - trust and hope.

Posted in GAFyD, JavaScript, tagged on June 16, 2007 | No Comments »

Fotango’s Chief Operating Officer, Simon Wardle, writes further about the decision to delay open sourcing Zimki on his personal blog. I’ve decided to look at the situation form a glass-half-full perspective; hey it’s still free, professionally managed, easy to use; I’ve some really useful web services running on it and the rest are static [...]

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Google Reader - all geared up.

Posted in SQLite, tagged , on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »

Due to a major power failure this morning at Hosting365 ( Ireland’s largest hosting provider and gateway to the internet for my WiFi based internet provider) I got to try out Google Reader’s new Google Gears powered off-line capability for real.
Worked perfectly, the original sync (via my ISDN backup line) took two or three [...]

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Zimki - goes off the boil.

Posted in JavaScript, Web2.0, news, tagged on June 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Looks like any further enhancement of Zimki is to be put on hold until Fotango’s parent company, Canon Europe, completes a review on the future direction (and viability?) of the hosted application market. This means the platform will not be open sourced in the near future. This and the lack of any sign [...]

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The Generation Game

Posted in Web2.0, tagged on June 8, 2007 | No Comments »

XKCD figures the young folks want rid of old folks to help unblock the tubes on the interweb…

..not blooming likely…

..Alf, the lead singer, is 90.

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There’s no place like 127.0.0.1

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on June 2, 2007 | No Comments »

A bit of light relief, the story of the world’s worst hacker, read more …..

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dhSQLite - New SQLite COM Wrapper

Posted in SQLite, VBA, excel on June 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I’ve just come across a new COM wrapper for SQLite from German company Datenhaus (like the name, maybe I should call myself Datenschmidt?). I’ve started to use the COM free PSSQLITE.DLL in my Excel VBA projects but I may consider using the Datenhaus dhSQLite library in certain situations as it includes a database encryption [...]

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