微軟的興衰

看到 Steven Ballmer 即將退休，也証明了沒有任何帝國是永久的。
微軟自 Windows 95 統治了 PC 近 15 年的時間，但卻因手機的變格失去了另一個世界
接下來也許是 Google 統治的網路世界，但是，下一波革命也許是跨越網路的另一個空間

New Mac Air 13"

Mac Air 13" 又出新版了，不過這次的新版好像是加強了 CPU 與 Battery, 其他地方變化不太大，沒有比較明顯的差異，看來我的 Mac Air 13" 可以多撐 2~3 年了

Mac Air 13" 之敗金主義

終於把 Mac Air 13" 敗下去，雖然心疼，但可以開發 iOS 與 Android，又可以玩完 Mac OS，所以後來想想，也滿值得的

最近從 iTune 抓了 Standford 的 iOS 上課的教學影片來看，竟然發現可以聽懂 9 成，證明一件事，學過的東西還是可以透過一些方式 Pick up 回來，由於面對的客戶是外商，幾乎都是以英文作為溝通的橋梁，所以英文能力總算撈回來一些

Mac Air 13"

最近看上 Mac Air 13" ，主要目的是可以寫 iPhone 與 android 的 app ，雖然 Ultrabook 比較便宜，但是就長期效益而言，Mac Air 後勢看漲 


沒想到 Windows 的世界被 Apple 從手機世界反轉回來，在在的印證了十年河東，十年河西，沒有絕對誰贏

設計資料庫的注意事項

1. Use well defined and consistent names for tables and columns (e.g. School, StudentCourse, CourseID ...).
2. Use singular for table names (i.e. use StudentCourse instead of StudentCourses). Table represents a collection of entities, there is no need for plural names.
3. Don’t use spaces for table names. Otherwise you will have to use ‘{‘, ‘[‘, ‘“’ etc. characters to define tables (i.e. for accesing table Student Course you'll write “Student Course”. StudentCourse is much better).
   
4. Don’t use unnecessary prefixes or suffixes for table names (i.e. use School instead of TblSchool, SchoolTable etc.).
5. Keep passwords as encrypted for security. Decrypt them in application when required.
6. Use integer id fields for all tables. If id is not required for the time being, it may be required in the future (for association tables, indexing ...).
7. Choose columns with the integer data type (or its variants) for indexing. varchar column indexing will cause performance problems.
8. Use bit fields for boolean values. Using integer or varchar is unnecessarily storage consuming. Also start those column names with “Is”.
9. Provide authentication for database access. Don’t give admin role to each user.
10. Avoid “select *” queries until it is really needed. Use "select [required_columns_list]" for better performance.
11. Use an ORM (object relational mapping) framework (i.e. hibernate, iBatis ...) if application code is big enough. Performance issues of ORM frameworks can be handled by detailed configuration parameters.
12. Partition big and unused/rarely used tables/table parts to different physical storages for better query performance.
13. For big, sensitive and mission critic database systems, use disaster recovery and security services like failover clustering, auto backups, replication etc.
14. Use constraints (foreign key, check, not null ...) for data integrity. Don’t give whole control to application code.
15. Lack of database documentation is evil. Document your database design with ER schemas and instructions. Also write comment lines for your triggers, stored procedures and other scripts.
16. Use indexes for frequently used queries on big tables. Analyser tools can be used to determine where indexes will be defined. For queries retrieving a range of rows, clustered indexes are usually better. For point queries, non-clustered indexes are usually better.
17. Database server and the web server must be placed in different machines. This will provide more security (attackers can’t access data directly) and server CPU and memory performance will be better because of reduced request number and process usage.
18. Image and blob data columns must not be defined in frequently queried tables because of performance issues. These data must be placed in separate tables and their pointer can be used in queried tables.
19. Normalization must be used as required, to optimize the performance. Under-normalization will cause excessive repetition of data, over-normalization will cause excessive joins across too many tables. Both of them will get worse performance.
20. Spend time for database modeling and design as much as required. Otherwise saved(!) design time will cause (saved(!) design time) * 10/100/1000 maintenance and re-design time.

安裝 desktop 到 ubuntu server

若要在 ubuntu server 裝 desktop 但不要有的沒的軟體，可以用以下指令安裝

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop

JRebel 的奇妙用途

相信用 eclipse 開發 web 時，每次 compile 完 java 後 tomcat 就需要重新啟動，應該覺得讓人非常的想把電腦丟掉

最近試了一下 JRebel ，發現他的神奇之處，Java compile 完後馬上就可以試改過後的結果，不用等 1 鐘後 tomcat 重啟然後還要重新 login 到需要的 page 在測試跑完的結果

以每個工程師去寫 web 而言，平均至少要花約 30~60 次來重啟 tomcat ，每一次重啟 tomcat 後再加上登入到需要的頁面再做測試，每次約要 2-3 分鐘

30*2 ~ 60*3 = 60 ~ 180 分鐘。若每天可以省下這些時間，相信 programmer 的產出應該會比目前的方式快上 20% ~ 30% 以上，可謂京人啊

用 Java 寫 Web 的工程師都應該用 JRebel 做為中介去開發，每天省下兩小時，不只可以提高生產率，也可以讓自己有多餘的時間去休息。

雙贏的事，為何不做呢!!!!