This is a very small “project” (I use quotes since the term “project” seems a bit generous here, however, it is treated as a project on GitHub!), which I found to be useful when dealing with generating MySQL scripts to insert or update text which spans over multiple lines. In most such cases, I would […]
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Shooting Range — 27/Oct/2013
I had to have a go at shooting a “proper” rifle too this time — I’m still trying to find the photo of the target at the end of the session, it’s somewhere in my phone, but I didn’t do too bad if I can say so myself π
Of “Big Brother” and Technology
This subject came to my attention recently following a few tweets from Dierk KΓΆnig around this — see this tweet for instance. To summarize, there’s an ongoing discussion on social media channels (and not only!) around the fear that technology we (and by “we” I am referring to us, techies) create lands in the lap […]
Shooting Range — San Leandro, CA — October 2013
On my way to becoming a gangsta, yo! π
Vista Point – I280 – San Mateo
Ok, there are 2 Vista Points on I-280 next to the San Mateo exit I take when I go to work, and this is only one of them. Since I don’t really know how (and whether??) they are labelled or called, I’m gonna refer to this one as the first — purely as it is […]
North Star – Lake Tahoe – October/2013
Slightly different look without the snow π
Liv’s New Snowboard! :)
Roll on snow season in Tahoe — this baby’s ready for it! π
Funny Car Registration Plate
Guess who paid for the car then? π
Evernote API — Small Maven Problem
So I started looking a bit closer these days at the Evernote API — another platform alongside Twitter which I like a lot, which is to say it’s basically another platform I find myself writing all sorts of tiny apps around π From the beginning I find out right away a small problem in their […]
Script to Quickly Create a Java Spring MVC Project
I’ve been (a bit) frustrated recently with the lack of support for quickly creating a Spring MVC project skeleton — there seems to be some maven archetypes but most of them I found to either not be maintained for a while and/or they install so much stuff that I decided not to use them. All […]










