Misc – Gerald on IT

US National Parks sample data now available!

My dear wife and I like to travel and explore nature. Naturally, US national parks are always high on our […]

It’s actually been quite a while since I put together these free sample data sets for everyone but it just

Returning to the blogging world

Hi everyone! This blog hasn’t seen any updates since over a year now and I do apologize for that. However,

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted

Today I was part of a NYOUG seminar about “Indexing Strategies” held by Mr. Jonathan Lewis himself. If somebody doesn’t

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary

I spent the last couple of days with coding a new registration module for a private website that I administrate.

A couple of weeks ago a customer had some troubles with the overall performance. He complained that everything is slow

TIOBE just released the “Tiobe programming community index” for April 2010. And guess what – C is back on top

Then you get registration emails like this: Hello $users.firstname! Your username is: $users.Login

Here is a good short article from a guy called Jackson about coding practices. Take a few moments to read