Apostrophes in names stir lot o' trouble By Sean Odriscoll, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams. More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. When Niall O'Dowd tried to book a flight to Atlanta earlier this year, the computer system refused to recognize his name. "I dropped the apostrophe and ran my name as 'ODowd,'" he said. It's not just the bad luck o' the Irish. Michael Rais, director of software development at Permission Data, an online marketing company in New York, said the problem is sloppy programming. "It's standard shortsightedness," he said. The trouble can happen in two ways, according to Rais. One: Online forms typically have a filter that looks for unfamiliar terms that might be put in by mistake or as a joke. In this year's primaries, the system worked much better, according to the Michigan Democratic Party.
11 Tips on Hiring a Rails Developer By Peter Cooper / November 29, 2007 The following article is a guest article written by John Philip Green of Savvica, a Toronto based educational technology company whose development efforts are focused on Ruby and Rails. Hiring Rails full-time Rails developers is hard. Here's why: Surging demand. You will likely fight other companies for every recruit.$100/hour++ freelance consulting rates are commonplace.It's hard to evaluate candidates. I've hired ten full-time Rails developers into startups so far in 2007, but to do that I've had to interview hundreds and learned a lot of lessons. Don't use Monster.com or recruitment agencies. Happy Hiring!
Computerized Systems Used in Clinical Trials Guidance for Industry - Computerized Systems Used in Clinical Trials << Return to Clinical Trials Guidance Documents U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration Center for Biologic Evaluation and Research (CBER) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Center for Food Safety and Nutrition (CFSAN) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) April 1999 A Electronic Signatures * B. A. A. A. A. A. This document addresses issues pertaining to computerized systems used to create, modify, maintain, archive, retrieve, or transmit clinical data intended for submission to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FDA established the Bioresearch Monitoring (BIMO) Program of inspections and audits to monitor the conduct and reporting of clinical trials to ensure that data from these trials meet the highest standards of quality and integrity and conform to FDA's regulations. A. B. C. D. E.
Scriptular is an interactive editor for JavaScript regular expressions Rubular fans, rejoice! Jonathan Hoyt has ported the much-loved Ruby regular expression editor to JavaScript. The result is Scriptular, which provides a simple way to test JavaScript regular expressions as you write them. Scriptular shares many of Rubular’s features. Lets you test multiple strings at onceDisplays match resultsIncludes a handy quick referenceProvides shareable permalinks Jonathan describes Scriptular as a clone of Rubular, but this clone boasts a killer feature that the original does not: it is open source and MIT licensed! Give the tool a try or check out the repo on GitHub.
A simple drop down list for iPhone It is often the case that the controls provided by iOS for the iPhone or iPad don’t quite meet our needs. In this blog we’ll learn how to mimic a simple Drop – Down list using a label, some custom buttons, and a hidden view. So let’s get started! Open Xcode, choose “Create a new Xcode project,” select the Single View Application template, and click Next. Click Next, choose a location to save the project, and click Create. When the app template has been created, open the ViewController.zib file, and drag controls to the view as shown below: The properties for these controls should be set in the following way: View: no properties set ◦ Label – Select A Color: Change the text to “Select A Color,” change the background to a light yellow color. ◦ Button: Change the text to “▼” by navigating to Edit | Special Characters in the menu, then selecting the down arrow character. Open the ViewController.h file, and add the following properties and methods: #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> @end Have Fun!
HTML5 Introduction SQLite 101 for iPhone Developers: Creating and Scripting This post is also available in: Spanish Storing Failed Banks by Year in a SQLite Database There are many ways to retrieve and store data on the iPhone, from property lists to NSCoding, from SQLite to Core Data. This two-part SQLite tutorial series is going to cover one of those options: SQLite. SQLite is a simple and easy to use library that implements a simple database engine, treating a database as a simple flat file. In this series, we’re going to show how to make an app that displays a list of failed US banks from a SQLite database. In this first part of the series, we will cover what SQLite is and why we’d want to use it, how to use the sqlite3 command-line utility, and how to import data programmatically via Python. In the second part of the series, we will cover how to make an iPhone app that reads data from the SQLite database we created, and display data in a table view and a drill down detail view. SQLite Overview Before we begin, let’s give a high level overview of SQLite.
Getting to Flow When design and client cultures truly come together, magical and memorable projects emerge. These magic projects aren’t random, though: I’ve come to understand that the conditions for creating good work aren’t a mystery, and that with a few thoughtful changes you can make those conditions more likely to occur on your next project. To get there, you’re going to have to challenge your clients to be a part of your creative process. We want to do Good Work#section1 In the best partnerships, all parties have the space to do Good Work: “enjoy[ing] doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself,” as Coert Visser writes. These magical projects don’t depend on a single culture dominating the partnership, though. Flow is a concept credited to Mihalyi Csíkszentmihályi, a Hungarian psychology professor, who described his observations in academic articles and in the popular book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Enabling immediate feedback#section2