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Chris R
Edmonton, KY
offby1.net
Age: 36
I'm a software developer and inveterate geek (like many here, I suspect). For work I use so many tools I usually can't remember them all, but C, Java/J2EE, scripting (unix shell + others) and release engineering tools figure heavily in the list.
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Why does Oracle 9i treat an empty string as NULL?
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asked Oct 15 '08 at 2:04
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Unit testing a python app that uses the requests library
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Parsing very large XML documents (and a bit more) in java
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xml
memory-management
streaming
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Where can I find Python tutorials aimed at people who are already programmers?
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12
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What does this dtrace error mean?
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How can I run Mac OSX graphical Emacs in daemon mode?
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emacs
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What is a good open source Java SE JTA TransactionManager implementation?
jta
java
transactionmanager
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