Archive for October, 2011
Remembering Steve Jobs
Thursday, October 6th, 2011Okay, look: Gallows humour aside (for the moment), Steve Jobs doesn’t deserve our reverence. He deserves our respect, yes, for being one of the only people in the industry to actually think about how people used hardware. He was a great hardware designer in part because of his obsession with detail and his absolute inability [...]
Find Duplicate File Names in CouchDB
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011I was stumped for a bit, trying to figure out how to help my editorial staff avoid uploading the same file twice. In a repository spanning tens of thousands of titles in over a hundred different collections, our staff can’t easily tell whether a document is already in a collection or not. Turns out that [...]