Esther, Ernest and myself having yogurt cones at Andersen's.
Ernest's allergies are acting up again. So I thought to buy the Sharp air purifiers to be placed in his room to help his allergies. We got a Sharp FU-A28E which has a HEPA filter and an ionizer for the kids room and a small car ioniser G-DC2E for the car. The room unit seems to be rather quiet at it ...
Ever got one of these faces from the kids when they want something?
I have always been amazed by Oracle's connect by query construct which enables recursive queries. I use quite a bit of graphs in my work and representing and using them with a database has been less than ideal. I just realized that PostgreSQL and SQL Server are also able to do this using Common Tabl ...
Who would have thought that the key to the popularity of a language is the size of the founders' beards. I typically thinks about ease of expression and the ability to perform powerful tasks with concise syntax but it appears that great beards are the key to a popular language. Check out the article ...
Had a vegetarian chicken rice for breakfast today and it was rather good. The rice had the taste of real chicken rice and the mock chicken is rather good. Not bad for $2.50 at the Bedok central hawker centre.
Saw some beautiful clouds from the lift lobby and decided to do some HDR on it. The following is the result.
Below is a drawing of the beach at Club Med Cherating created using Procreate on the iPad.
I use bash scripts to tie together different programs to get the results that I need and it is nice to be able to redirect all the stdout and stderr of all the programs to a single output file. In a bash script, you can add the following lines to the top of the script and that will redirect everythi ...
On occasions, I have to write Java codes mainly for performance reasons and I generally use NetBeans for this. NetBeans is all nice and great but it does not package the codes together with all the dependencies into a single JAR. Enter One-JAR which does just that and it is pretty easy to use. It ...