Google Translate is awesome but fell a few feet short of my requirements on a recent project. What I was looking for was full control over what portions of my web content get translated when the user requests a translation and not the entire page. If you have used Google Translate, you know that the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Yes, Google does offer us an incredible list of tools to make our lives easier and simpler(?) but in the process of doing so, the company is also amassing a large amount of data about you. The company uses this data to make results more relevant but there’s something eerie about that. I wrote a [...]
Read the rest of this entry »I ran into the challenge of updating a database (oracle) table with a random date and thought that my solution might help someone else with a similar challenge. Here goes… First you need to get the Julian day number for your start date. Start date is the date from where you want to begin the [...]
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