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Growing Money: A Complete Investing Guide for Kids

At 7, I think my daughter is a little too young for it.  I intend to purchase it within the next 2 years.

It seems the godfathers of Ruby and Rails thought we should learn to use our text editors to comment code. Sorry if I break any conventions:


=begin
def sendEmail
# This is a single line comment
fred = fred
end
=end


In the example above, the single line comment is like PHP, use the number symbol “#”. For more than one line of code, use “=begin” before the first line and “=end” after the last one. Do not use any indentation.

Whats my deal? I am using the wrong terms to do my searches? This is the second time today that I have had trouble finding something on the web.

After a number of annoying fruitless searches on the web, I’ve decided to add my own contribution. Hopefully this will help others.

# psql -U username -W -d database_name -h 192.168.0.1 -p 5432

• -U is the postgres username for the database server
• -W tells psql to prompt you for a password
• -d is the database to use on the postgres server
• -h is the host (you can use IP or domain)
• -p port. This defaults to 5432.

Additional Reading

• Some useful Postgres command-line arguments.
• Using SQL with PostgreSQL
• PSQL cheatsheet

Tier1Research wrote this the other day about MyRackspace.com:

Rackspace’s customer portal goes mobile
Rackspace made enhancements to its customer portal, MyRackspace, with the addition of mobile capabilities. Customers will be able to receive mobile notifications about their infrastructure, and they will be allowed to create and manage support tickets. The capabilities are available for most popular mobile devices, with BlackBerry and iPhone being specifically named.

It’s a nice step on the part of Rackspace, extending its trademark Fanatical Support to the mobile world. Being able to access and manage hosted infrastructure is imperative in this increasingly mobile world and will be of particularly strong interest to mid-sized businesses (a large constituency in Rackspace’s customer base), which often don’t have dedicated in-house IT staff on location to take care of hosting and infrastructure issues.

The customer portal has seen major upgrades on a bi-monthly basis, some recent updates being enhanced firewall management, a suggestions center and an ability to attach documents to support tickets. Future updates in the works include access to historical availability monitoring data and managed backup threshold alerts, to warn when critical backup capacity usage is reached.

The Rackspace customer portal is what I spend my days testing for quality assurance. It’s nice to get recognized.

I’m the dummy with his back turned.

… he give her a server! Microsoft has a new advertising campaign out for which they wrote a children’s book.  The book is obviously meant to invoke fond memories of the children’s book genre that teaches kids about life events. It’s not actually for kids.

Some big names came out for this video.

nice.

Importing slaves ends 200 years ago.  This is an interesting landmark worth noting.

Stumbled on this rant. Amazed he’s had such bad luck finding work. Usually I dismiss these rants as immature, a reflection of its writer. A typical case of a person looking for the problem everywhere but home. But this guy has a solid reputation. I’m definitely interested in building my knowledge of RoR. Are the prospects not so good?

His comments on ThoughtWorks also make me nervous. We are working with them on some pretty big projects. It’s good though that they are considered amoung the best consultants.