How to solve error: [Oracle JDBC Driver]Transliteration failed, reason: invalid UTF8 data
I got a strange error “Oracle JDBC DriverTransliteration failed, reason: invalid UTF8 data” while working on a client system. I...
Reporting Querys and COUNT(*) vs COUNT(1)
I was working on a reporting query today and used several legacy queries as a base. When debugging and optimizing the query I found the...
Getting USB Device Drivers Working for HTC Android Development
I set up a new Eclipse environment today and wanted to use my HTC Thunderbolt for testing. Usually, the way this works is you right click...
ColdSpring 2.0 Alpha 1 Released! Your Help Needed!
Mark Mandel posted information about the ColdSpring 2.0 Alpha release and I wanted to make sure it got out to the general public. There is...
Quirk in MySQL Join Conditions
I found a quirk in a join condition today that caused too many records to display. Look at the following query and notice the two AND...
Long Live the Conference!
Last year, one of the major tech conferences, CFUnited, closed it’s doors for good. This left a hole in the learning and networking...
Thinking Like a Cupcake Kingpin
As you know, my company ChallengeWave is a tool for healthy challenges at work. at ChallengeWave, we’ve got a number of very large...
On What Is Important
An article showed up in my inbox today titled Startup Weekend pep talk: It ain’t the code. The background of this article is a pep...
To Free or Not to Free
It’s pretty common for web based services to offer a free sign-up account as a trial period or self-directed demonstration. An...
Gmail Gmail, how thou hast forsaken me
Oh Gmail, Gmail How thou hath forsaken me Thou makest me to switch accounts where there used to be no problems Thou loggest me out at...