Visit to Chinese Garden
09:12 PM on Sunday 25 August 2013
It has been quite a while seen we have been to Chinese Garden even though we live very close. Since the kids were not doing anything constructive, we headed to the playground within Chinese Garden for some fun before lunch.
Abstract stuff
09:25 PM on Friday 23 August 2013
Took out the OMD and had some fun at the dining area. Enjoy :-)
Listing files with absolute paths
03:05 PM on Wednesday 21 August 2013
In some cases, there is a need to list files with absolute paths rather than just the filename as done by ls. This can be done using the following command: find -iname '*.txt' This solution uses find to search for files within the directory provided by pwd which is the current directory. This crea ...
Why me
12:54 PM on Saturday 17 August 2013
Using awk to filter lines on column values
10:28 AM on Thursday 15 August 2013
You can use the following awk snippet to filter the lines of a text file by a certain condition: The above snippet prints out the line in the text file is the first column has a numeric value greater than one. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8734351/using-awk-to-filter-out-column-with-numeri ...
The family having yogurt cones
07:25 PM on Sunday 11 August 2013
Esther, Ernest and myself having yogurt cones at Andersen's.
Air purifier
07:40 PM on Monday 05 August 2013
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 ...
Kids acting cute
08:32 AM on Sunday 04 August 2013
Ever got one of these faces from the kids when they want something?
Recursive queries
03:59 PM on Friday 02 August 2013
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 ...
Beards and programming languages
07:22 AM on Tuesday 30 July 2013
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 ...