Aaron Terry

We always get new requests from our users to add yet another type of query in our applications, so last week I decided to spend some time and create an jquery plugin to do sql queries. This is the outcome; a plugin that lets you select columns,conditions and sort orders just by clicking.It provides an ability to describe queries in sort of natural language instead of SQL statements. - Aaron Terry

Faced with a virgin install of Lion, I wondered how my usual bevy of tools would fare under the new operating system. After some minor changes to my bootstrap process, I had a rockin' Python / Django development system up and running in no time. - Aaron Terry

What HTML would have been had it been designed for web apps - Aaron Terry

Providing a consistent, single version of the truth across all sources of information in an analytics-ready format is one of the biggest challenges faced by I.T. organizations today. With powerful data extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities, an intuitive and rich graphical design environment, and an open and standards-based architecture, Pentaho Data Integration is increasingly the choice over proprietary and homegrown data integration tools. - Aaron Terry

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration dramatically improves the efficiency of data integration job design through an easy-to-use graphical development environment. It enables rapid deployment and reduces maintenance costs with prebuilt connectors to all source and target systems, with support for all types of data integration, data migration and data synchronization operations. High quality support is available through a worldwide community of users who provide continual testing and feedback. - Aaron Terry

Informatica Data Subset is flexible, scalable software for creating data subsets. It enables your IT team to create, update, and secure data subsets—smaller, targeted databases—from large, complex databases. With referentially intact subsets of production data, your IT organization dramatically reduces the amount of time, effort, and disk space needed to support nonproduction systems. - Aaron Terry

expressor’s application solutions fully leverage expressor’s unique approach to data integration by enabling you to define your data as intelligent and reusable business data objects that make sense for your organization. You can easily define data types, data mappings, field validation rules, and error handling actions that are consistent with your organization’s terminology and business rules. The rules and actions are automatically enforced even when data sources and targets are changed. This unique approach, coupled with an intuitive, graphical, drag-and-drop development environment dramatically simplifies the process of creating and maintaining your data integration applications. - Aaron Terry

The Rocket Stove is a variety of wood-burning cooking stove. It is easy to construct, with low-cost materials. These are low-mass stoves designed to burn small pieces of wood very efficiently. Cooking is done on top of a short insulated chimney. The stoves are typically constructed out of trash: tin cans, old stovepipes, etc. A skirt around the pot will help hold heat in, increasing the efficiency. - Aaron Terry

If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world” actually works. It took me about ten years and a lot of suffering to figure out some of this, starting from “fairly bright engineer with low self-confidence and zero practical knowledge of business.” I wouldn’t trust this as the definitive guide, but hopefully it will provide value over what your college Career Center isn’t telling you. - Aaron Terry

However, as I have intimated, mirroring between Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files (“CF”) is now much easier, and very cheap.  Read on for the gory details. - Aaron Terry

Are you sick of waiting for machines at your local commercial gym?  Perhaps you just want to spend more time at home and are looking for a workout solution.  Whatever your reason might be, making your own version of a Bulgarian Training Bag is an effective and practical solution. - Aaron Terry