One of the most frustrating things with working in a team is the arguments that inevitably show up in design meetings. I am blogging about the frustration that typically stems from ignorant managers or sales executives.
Scenario 1:
Manager: we need to add twitter-like functionality
Programmer: We need to integrate micro-blogging in our product?
Manager: It’ll make our [...]

I investigated various ways of deleting duplicate rows in a MySQL table. My problem required that the method should be quick, fault tolerant, verbose and be able to handle large datasets. Following is a list of common ways to either select distinct rows or delete duplicate rows from MySQL tables, along with how long it [...]

A couple weeks ago I had been working on something I thought would be pretty cool. The idea was a video player that could stream videos from external servers. The way I had planned on accomplishing this was via JavaFX and a signed applet. Needless to say (if you read the title) it didn’t really [...]