I think trends are one of the most interesting by-products of the Twitter revolution. It is so interesting to capture the collective minds of the world and collapse them down to ten terms. @karmadude and I have begun experimenting with Twitter’s historical trend data using their search API. We have a lot [...]
There are plenty of ways to select random records from a database, here are a few simple statements that don’t require any advanced logic.
Select a random row with MySQL:
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Select a random row with PostgreSQL:
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Select a random row with Microsoft SQL Server:
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Select a random row with IBM DB2
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Select a random record with Oracle:
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Have you got other [...]
After digging around the internets for a good list of HTML character entities I remembered finding and printing off their great Regular Expression cheat sheet at work and thougth there was a chance they might have a sheet for characters too. How could I forget the name of the site… I Love Jack Daniels.
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