Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog
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Tweets 2019-03
2019-03-30: That feeling when your vendor sends a beta and you can finally play with the new feature you’ve been waiting for for a year. 2019-03-28: This: “Our DAM systems sit at the edge of the wheel, while our Scripps Asset Registry sits in the middle and manages the relationships between these systems. […] Our…
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The story of my favorite bug
In the fifteenth year of my software developer career, I encountered a remarkable bug that would “entertain” me for weeks. “Garbage in, garbage out”? It started off rather innocuously: At a recently-installed customer site, I noticed that a few XML files sent from the editorial system weren’t imported correctly into our DAM system. The files…
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Using XML to copy data from PostgreSQL to MySQL
Today, I needed to copy a few tables from a PostgreSQL database into a MySQL database. I wanted to use XML files to exchange the data so I could inspect and validate it easily. I expected this to be a lot of work (including XSLT magic), but it was surprisingly easy: It turns out that…