Author: johayek
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Modern Perl 2016 (AKA “4e”) edition – online and e-books free yet another time
https://pragprog.com/book/swperl/modern-perl-fourth-edition https://web.archive.org/web/20161123122456/http://www.modernperlbooks.com/ http://www.modernperlbooks.com – as of today (and also in its archived version shown above) this web page announces the 2016 (AKA “4e”) edition http://www.modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/ – online HTML version http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl – which version to get where (PDF/letter, PDF/A4, …)
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iReport, some Oracle database, JDBC, SQLRunner, …
Your task is to interface a rather remote Oracle database with iReport. But you are not really sure, whether you are able to successfully connect to the database at all. And you want to “explore” the database, its tables, its “views” … No CLI utility like sqlplus available as well. I am trying SQLRunner. Says something…
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“Markdown”: further reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language — includes various tables http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax – where it all began http://www.markdowntutorial.com http://www.markdowntutorial.com/conclusion/ https://help.github.com/articles/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax/ https://github.github.com/gfm/ – GitHub Flavored Markdown spec https://gitlab.com/help/user/markdown – GitLab Flavored Markdown spec (a customer GitLab installation provides (resp. seems to provide) a version with a TOC) https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa – Jira and its markup language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_(markup) http://overapi.com/org-mode – Emacs org-mode and its markup language Emacs and Markdown: https://github.com/jrblevin/markdown-mode http://melpa.org/#/markdown-mode
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started misc/busybox-w32/ on my GitHub.com account
https://github.com/JochenHayek/misc/tree/master/busybox-w32 – started with my .profile and my .shinit added a few lines (Re: “markdown”) to my article on the o’Reilly GitHub book – find it through the github.com tag here!
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the GNOME-DB project aims to provide a free unified data access architecture to the GNOME project for all Unix platforms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME-DB
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Best Holocaust movies to watch for Holocaust Memorial Day – Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/holocaust-movies-17-of-the-best-beyond-schindler-s-list-1.514127
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Wikipedia:Edit_warring : The three-revert rule, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring
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Bradley Burston: “He’s a monster. And now he’s president of the United States.”
Bradley Burston http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.765635
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Shai Afsai: “Ignore the neo-Nazis! Benjamin Franklin was no anti-Semite.”
For 80 years anti-Semites worldwide have celebrated a bare-faced forgery, ‘Franklin’s Prophecy,’ as proof the founding father saw Jews as ‘vampires’ and ‘a great danger for the United States.’ http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.765668
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computer (etc) displays and colour schemes – “black on white” or “white on black”?
I have “no idea”, what is better for my health: a dark (or black) background a light (or white) background I think, the human eye enjoys white as a “general background”, … – so I somehow think, white as background is “more enjoyable”. I just noticed, that my favourite editor has white as background and…