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AnyDbTest
I’ve been working in my spare time on a database testing tool, AnyDbTest, with my friend Liu Zhongwu (刘忠武）. The program is written in C#, based on the .Net Framework 3.5. It can be used in many scenarios: business analysts and QA can use it to confirm and validate data, recordsets data comparison; database developers…
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英语成语: 挂猪头，卖猫肉–Pig in a poke
今天早上读Glenn GreenWald的博客，读到“They (the Chinese) don’t want to buy a pig in a poke”，虽然从行文里猜得出意思，但我还是用鼠标左键选择，然后右键股沟搜索，来查查这个成语的出处。我到现在还搞不明白为什么IE里没有这个功能，该功能已是我学习的利器之一。 原来欧洲中世纪后期流行的商家坑人手段是挂猪头，卖猫肉：把猫肉放在袋子里当猪肉卖，因猪肉稀罕但猫多。所以“pig in a poke”是忽悠人的意思。这和我们的”挂羊头，卖狗肉”有异曲同工之妙。 引申开来，”Let the cat out of the bag”就是揭秘，还真相于天下的意思。我明白它的意思，并且也用过这个俚语，但今天是第一次搞明白出处，挺有意思的。 感谢宋以郎的链接，让我了解到Glenn Greenwald的博客。个人以为Glenn Greenwald的文笔犀利，逻辑清晰，其揭露媒体之无良、政府之腐败、权威智库之装逼的深刻，令我击掌叫绝。
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WordPress 2.8, a step back
Update below Reports in blogsphere about some WordPress blogs being hacked got me alarmed. So I decided to upgrade mine from whatever version it was at (2.3, perhaps, whatever the current version was a year ago) to 2.8, the latest, but certainly not the greatest. The upgrade process wasn’t hard, just a bit tedious. After…
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In search of a better dev environment setup
Now my make-shift working area is no longer the dining table after the move, I am eager to set up a proper environment for learning and developing software at home. My thought is to have one decent computer that powers a few virtual machines. I like the idea of virtual machines as opposed to physical…
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Running Windows without anti-virus software
I’ve been frustrated with anti-virus software for a while. At a client last year, I had to fight with Symantec to get a proper ASP development environment up and running. At home, I’ve used AVG, avast, McAfee, and others. Far from the feeling of being protected from the “scary world out there”, I started to…