Author Archives: Thibaut Wdowiak
Mountain pictures from my last holidays
Here they are, as I just finished to sort them out: Problem with big cameras is they are big and expensive, so I did not want to take mine skiing. Meanwhile, its when you ski, when you explore the mountain … Continue reading
I am a flickr user
I am taking advantage from this Xmas downtime to start publishing some of my photos on the web. I am using a combination of tools to make it simple to publish: digikam for photo management, tagging, editing. imagemagick for resizing, … Continue reading
Humanity is just a big statistical database
In the past 2 years, we have seen some applications emerging with ideas and concepts coming from Business Intelligence but for individuals. They are applications which provide analytical functions about some specific area of individual’s life, as personal finance analysis … Continue reading
Holiday photos
Location: Ile de Ré (France) Date: September 2008 I just want to share some photos I took lastly with my brand new camera. They were taken on the Ile de Ré, an island west of France. For the 2 sunsets, … Continue reading
My own backup script in bash
Remember a while ago I was writing about backup solutions to work under linux and concluded that a bash script was what I needed. Well, here it is, at last. Invocation Main functionnalities and invocation scheme are described in the -h … Continue reading
Further down the spiral: Geeking out at Mc Donald’s
Yes, I must confess that I totally cracked. I do not have internet access at home and the situation has been going on since we moved to a new apartment. It takes some time for ISPs to bring a line … Continue reading
Stuff Warehousing (step #3: Implementation)
Now that the big picture is clear. Let’s get down to the actual realisation of this stuff warehousing infrastructure. Some similarities with IT engineering: Tools: you need sql, a file editor… you need a saw, screwdrivers… Bricks: planks, screws, cleats … Continue reading
Stuff Warehousing (step #2: General and Detailed Specifications)
Lastly I started a series of articles about my first DIY closet building project alongside with personal reflections on the parrallels between a stuff warehousing and a data warehousing problematic (which might be a part of the answer to why … Continue reading
Lltag: Interactive command line mp3 tagging
I am trying to build a personal music warehouse from various sources, my CDs, borrowed CDs, collected mp3s and so on. This project, once achieved, will make my life sound much better as I’ll have my music available to my … Continue reading
Stuff Warehousing (step #1: Detecting the need)
My job in the Business Intelligence field often involves dealing with data warehouses, which are big databases organized to suit reporting and data analysis needs, it is an organised place to store data. Just like a closet is an organized … Continue reading
