Lessons of the Trade : Simple way to deter web scrapers
If your website is a target of web scrapers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_scraping), here’s a simple way to keep them on their toes.. Every few days (or weeks) make...
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Lessons of the trade : Troubleshooting database perfromance
If you have ever worked in an IT shop, you will know that the one thing you cannot escape from is issues related to Database performance....
New Toy : Kindle 2.0
I have been looking at getting an e-book reader for some time now (yes.. even though I don’t have time, I still like to think I...
HOW TO : Simple perl script to replace lines in file
Nothing fancy.. but here is a simple perl script to open a file, search for specific content in the a line and replace it with some...
Lessons of the trade : Data purge in databases..
Quick note to myself.. If you have a high volume transactional database and are looking to purge data from a table(s).. make sure you purge the...
SourceForge : Project of the Month
SourceForge.net is an online community supporting open source projects by providing hosting, distribution and subversion services. They choose a project every month from the hundreds of...