Did you know? Emacs supports killing rectangles of text!

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How I Structure My Flask Applications Flask has been my preferred web framework as of late. I think it has a great core feature set and Armin, the main author, has done well to keep its API minimal and easy to digest even for developers that are relatively new to Python. However, given that it is a rather minimal framework, it can be often difficult to decide on how to structure an application after it reaches a certain level of complexity. It tends to be a common question that comes up in the #pocoo IRC channel.In this article I intend to share how I structure Flask applications. To help support this article Ive written a very basic application that Ive arbitrarily named Overholt. If you plan on following along I recommend having the source code open in your browser or a code editor.

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I stumbled upon a very brain-f**k error on Oracle 10g on these days.

Context: the following query [sql]SELECT * FROM (
SELECT TO_NUMBER(CUSTOMER_ID) AS SNDG FROM BAD_CODES_TABLE WHERE
AND I_LIKE=UPPER(‘STATIC_CONDITION’) AND CUSTOMER_ID NOT LIKE ‘%P%’ ) S WHERE TO_NUMBER(S.SNDG) >2000[/sql] could trigger a Invalid number if CUSTOMER_ID column contains invalid numbers.

Why?

Well…if you ask to “explain plan”, you will get something like

• a table full scan
  • Filter Predicates AND
    • I_LIKE=UPPER('STATIC_CONDITION')
    • TO_NUMBER(S.SNDG) >2000
    • CUSTOMER_ID NOT LIKE '%P%'

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http://open.spotify.com/user/1169393101/playlist/6GjrQ0EjyucEZkXaIPRH5A And yes I love POP…:)

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Userful Commands:

1. keep-lines
2. sort-lines

For more similar options, see this "working with lines"

For playing with rectangles of text, see this tip

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After some year, we decided a new theme shake up..

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Bash scripting has evolved a lot in the last ten years.

I get used to relay on bash for all normal “data domination” tasks (like file system refactorings, database extraction and reporting and so on) and switching to python/ruby/perl when the complexity gets bigger. I didn’t imagine bash is even more powerful :) This article by Robert Muth so you new nice tricks: I  add here some other like mapfile and stress the most important one.

^{Update 2016} Last but not least,if you do now know about bash history, this link will teach you a huge set of tricks ^{Updated 2019} Bash Bible will further extend the topic.

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If you have an application with thousand of beans, you must do unit testing but…Spring testing is boring, belive me. A very complex Spring application usually have a lot of dependency: I had to manage over 3000 beans definitions in a production project right now. Sometimes you want only to test a bit of it, and setting up a complete Spring Context will drive you crazy. To avoid losing mind, my suggestion is to …cheat. Let’see how.

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Ready to study the Erlang?

Take a look to http://howistart.org/posts/erlang/1 for understanding how erlang releases works (and how to deal with them).

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After a bunch of time, I take back my Erlang Hammer from the sand of time.

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