In a change of their current policy of providing filtered content in China, Google has decided to stand against the Chinese government and remove all filters on their search results. The reason mentioned for their policy change was a grave web-based attack against the accounts of human rights leaders. I think that this is a honorable…
Google wave was introduced in the last I/O conference (2009) by Google as a new platform for communication. A platform using web 2.0 concepts, and providing an array of features that has not been available in other platforms. I received an invitation to use Google wave and decided to take a quick look. Although some…
When working with Oracle databases, it is sometimes interesting to create a duplicate row of a table. Most of the times this happens when I am testing something on an application and need to tweak one of the entries in a table. There is a standard SQL trick to duplicate elements of a table that…