I’ve been going to the programming woodshed in order to sharpen my coding skills. As part of my self-improvement (self-flagellation?) regimen, I plan to work through the Project Euler problems in Python. I’m doing this for a few reasons:
I didn’t study computer science or advanced math in college, so this will be a great learning [...]
How utterly stupid are we becoming in the U.S.?
A survey conducted by Harris Interactive (on behalf of the California Academy of Sciences) found that Americans are dumber than a gigantic box of hair. Here are some gems from the survey results (hat tip: kottke):
Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did [...]
According to a nationwide Trinity College 2008 survey released today (hat tip: AP/Yahoo! News), secularism is increasing across the U.S., while the percentage of self-identifying Christians has decreased significantly since 1990. Catholicism has suffered some especially steep regional losses, particularly in the Northeast. Traditional Protestant denominations have continued to decline as well.
Some interesting highlights:
The 2008 [...]
I’ve been working with Oracle databases for about 7 years as a developer, but I’d never run into the tnsping tool until recently. I’m sure every Oracle DBA knows about it. However, this might be helpful information to coders who are trying to troubleshoot network connectivity to a database.
In an nutshell, tnsping lets you quickly [...]