Erich Stauffer

  • Would You Work for Artificial Intelligence?

    You show up for your job, do the work as assigned, and head home. About every two weeks you get a paycheck deposited into your bank. You have managers, coworkers, and a 401K. Your company makes products people love. But there’s just one thing: the company is owned and operated by Artificial Intelligence. Why Would…

  • Microsoft SQL Primary Keys

    I’m in the process of learning SQL and in so doing have started learning Microsoft SQL using Microsoft’s SQL Management Studio. It’s a free program that’s used to open, manage, and edit Microsoft SQL databases stored on a server running Microsoft SQL (quick note: SQL is a database language used to store data in tables…

  • Applying Problem-Solving to Business Strategy

    A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” -Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and inventor Andy Harris is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and has written many books on programming. He was one of my professors at IUPUI and is responsible for…

  • Google Talk Notification Extensions

    This document describes the XMPP extensions that notify clients about email in their Gmail account. Google does not intend for this extension to become a standard and so it is subject to change. Element or Attribute Translation <mailbox> Outer wrapper element for all email information. result-time The time these results were generated, in milliseconds since…

  • Youtube Query String Arguments

    These are the query string parameters (also called arguments) that get tagged at the end of a Youtube URL. They are the ampersands (“&”) and text at the end of a web address (URL). In the case of Youtube, this string of of code is the query string parameters and it adds functionality to what…

  • Google Mail (Gmail) Query String Parameters

    Gmail Query String Parameters To pass these Gmail query string parameters on to Google Mail, simply paste the query into Gmail’s search box. Query Translation from: Used to specify the sender. to: Used to specify a recipient. subject: Search for words in the subject line OR Search for messages matching term A or term B…

  • Google Video Query String Parameters

    Google Video is no longer a supported Google product, but it’s videos can still be edited by changing their query string parameters. Query Translation alt= The “alt” parameter specifies the format of the feed to be returned. Valid values for this parameter are atom, rss, json and json-in-script. The default value is atom and this…

  • Yahoo! Pipes

    This is a pipe: | pipe To direct data so that the output from one process becomes the input to another process. The standard output of one command can be connected to the standard input of another with the pipe operator (|). Two commands connected in this way constitute a pipeline. IBM.   http://www.lnf.infn.it/computing/doc/aixcxx/html/glossary/p.htm  …

  • The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)

    The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD…