Joris Luyendijk is a dutch anthropologist with a mission (for the UK newspaper The Guardian): he’s “going native in the world of finance“, by listening and talking to people from the City of London about their job in the financial district. My interest in the subject shouldn’t come as a surprise, since I work for [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Joris Goes Native
Posted in Personal on 27/12/2011 |
Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, And Fraud?
Posted in Society on 21/12/2011 |
The gazeta.ru website uses a statistical anlysis of the recent parliamentary elections in Russia to argue that the results do not reflect the real votes of the Russian people: Elections improbability (thanks for the link, Pascal). The graphics shown in the report, if correct, are quite revealing… Does anyone care to repeat the exercice with the results [...]
Frontier Is Not Dead
Posted in Content Management, Software, Software Development, Web Development on 20/12/2011 |
A few days ago, Dave Winer mentioned an fresh source for all things Frontier: http://scripting.com/stories/2011/12/18/areYouAFrontierUser.html. Still no mention of a Linux version, but at least there’s a better overview of what’s available than what Google can tell us about the subject ;-) I have mentioned Frontier several times on this blog, not in the least [...]
ColdFusion Tip For Myself: Use CFQUERYPARAM
Posted in ColdFusion, Software Development on 13/12/2011 |
Yes, I need to write this down – it’s too easy not to do it. But it’s good advice to use CFQUERYPARAM to enhance the performance of the Oracle DB (and other DB engines probably as well) … and to simplify your code at the same time. Why the better performance? Because CFQUERYPARAM translates your [...]
Wireless, Looking Good, And Useful: AirDroid
Posted in Android, Mobile Computing on 05/12/2011 |
Indeed: “Wireless, Looking Good, And Useful” would be a good description of the AirDroid application for Android. AirDroid is basically a web server, serving up a single application from your smartphone (or tablet, I suppose). That application presents you on your PC/Mac/…with a nice “desktop”, containing the main ingredients of your smartphone: you can get [...]
Solar Energy Production Update
Posted in Personal, Technology on 01/12/2011 |
I have updated the Solar Energy Production numbers. It’s quite interesting to see that our gut feeling of a dry autumn is being confirmed by higher output from our solar panels during the last three months when comapring them to last year.
