Do you ever need to work with Time Zone info in your code? If no, you are lucky, if yes, then you might have encountered the strange interpretations of “GMT+11” in PHP. In common sense, either “UTC+11” or “GMT+11” would mean the GMT time + 11 hours, which will be …
Hive supports MAP data type, to defined it in a table, use the following code: This works fine if you only need to insert data into this table using hive UDFs to convert data into MAP, but it will be tricky if you want to load the data from a …
I have two disks with two different OSes installed on each – one for Windows XP and one for Fedora 19. They work happily with each other and don’t cause any issues. Two weeks ago, I decided to upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7. Installation worked fine, Windows 7 boots …
I recently installed Fedora 19 as a replacement for Ubuntu 13.04 as somehow Ubuntu won’t start and I would like to have a new taste to see what Fedora looks after a few years without using it. Installation went successfully without problems and I also managed to install Cairo Dock. …
My old VPS was with HostMist, which I have been with for quite a few years, the plan was US$6 for 10GB space and 128MB memory. I actually got around 1GB for quite a while, and I think it was their fault that they accidentally gave me extra RAM, :). …
My new Snowflake Blog is now live. I will not be updating this blog anymore but will continue with new contents in the Snowflake world!