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"But just reading about SQL was not enough for me. Ⅰ needed a safe place to practice. And, Ⅰ found it at the SQLzoo. They have nice tutorials and sandboxes where you can do the essential thing and practice writing your own SQL statements. Plus, for those of us who must be multilingual when it comes to flavors of database, SQLzoo covers all kinds of databases from postgreSQL to Oracle. If you want to have some with SQL, Ⅰ highly recommend the SQLzoo."

""The goal of my app was to create a tool for people to annoy others," Gloss wrote in a blog entry at his website. He set a one-hour time limit to write and upload it to Apple. "The end product was Sound Grenade, which is a really terrible app, one button turns a sound on or off, period. For 20 minutes' work, Ⅰ thought it would be interesting to take the ride.""

"We’re proud to introduce you to a small project we’ve developed in the past weeks: MM Construct . MM Construct is a base application for any Flash AS3 project that uses the excellent ModestMaps library. We strive to help you get up and running quickly with your own visualization projects"

"Writing good code makes life easier. If there's a common theme in bioinformatics, it is this: you will write a script, move on to something else, then return to the script in a few months or years time and try to remember how it works. The clearer the code is originally written, the better to remember how it works. Here is a quote "All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code". This means that most of your time will be spent fixing and improving code, rather than writing fresh. Writing code is personal, and discussing what makes good code is controversial. But I'm going do it anyway and describes what Ⅰ think are a few basic principles that can help to make code easier to maintain."

"Moving to this structure allows us to eliminate approximately 5,000 full-time jobs, about 11 percent of Dow’s current workforce. This is in addition to the Rohm and Haas synergies which Ⅰ will discuss in a few minutes. We are also closing 20 production plants in high-cost areas and divesting several non-strategic businesses. The vast majority of these were already part of Dow’s Business Portfolio Optimization Group and were targeted for action. Today’s announcement means we’ll pursue these closures and divestitures at an even more aggressive pace than we have in the past. Ⅰ should point out that about 2,000 roles of the total jobs being eliminated are expected to go with these divested businesses. We are also in the process of temporarily idling approximately 180 production plants. These represent approximately 30 percent of our plants worldwide and are mostly split evenly between North America and Europe. As a result, we will also be reducing our contractor workforce by about 6