Thoughts and notes on unit testing
I’m not a fan of unit testing. As a matter of fact, I have never written any unit tests in my career. Well, I almost did for one of my previous projects that was growing huge, but the client was more interested in seeing the functional requirements met over the non-functional ones (probably because they [...]
Programming today…
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. – Rich Cook
PostgreSQL notes
This is just another one of my notes. I often encounter these errors after a fresh install of Fedora. After executing psql -U postgres and getting this message: psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket “/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432″?
Google Chrome Frame
Just a few hours ago, Google released Google Chrome Frame. Google Chrome Frame is… … an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer So it is a plugin for IE. Recent JavaScript performance improvements and the emergence of HTML5 have enabled web applications to do things that could [...]
PostgreSQL restore and dump
This is just a note to myself. This is how I create backup and restore backup of postgresql databases right now: pg_dump -U postgres -F t -b -v -f ".backup" "" -F : –format=format Selects the format of the output. t : Output a tar archive suitable for input into pg_restore. Using this archive format [...]
