Lifeboat blog

If you want to determine what is the parent git branch of the current one

We are used to think that O(log N) is always better than O(N), but it is not always true.

SVN does not have a stash (or shelve) functionality, but there is always a way around

It is not trivial to set up Webex to work on modern Ubuntu. This post recaps the steps I made to make it work

Sample query to parse address line into fields in PostgreSQL without stored procedures

If you ever need to extract an OLE document from within a Microsoft Office document

Squeryl is very smart, but some time you want to alter a bit of its logic. Here is one of the methods.

The error "class XXX inherits conflicting members" is almost obvious by the compiler message, but stop just one step short of the full solution.