The Cult of Gary

I learned something neat tonight. You can view your google search history. That’s not new.
Now you can break it down by service, like news, images, maps, etc. One of the breakouts is sponsored links. That means you can see the google ad words you’ve actually clicked on. Mine appears to be mostly for key words [...]

I can’t come up with words to describe this:

#!/usr/bin/php
$array1 = Array( ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’);
$array2[2] = ‘c’;
$array2[1] = ‘b’;
$array2[0] = ‘a’;
var_dump($array1);
var_dump($array2);

results in:

array(3) {
[0]=>
string(1) “a”
[1]=>
string(1) “b”
[2]=>
string(1) “c”
}
array(3) {
[2]=>
string(1) “c”
[1]=>
string(1) “b”
[0]=>
string(1) “a”
}
My expectation is that the second array should be identical to the first. It should ignore the order I put the elements in, because I’m adding them [...]

I’m re-reading the classic The Data Warehouse Toolkit by Ralph Kimball. It’s a great book for learning about data warehousing. I figured it was worth a refresh. In my current project, I’m working with some large data sets and I’ll be using data marts to make analyzing the data easier. 

I’m at the section where he talks about CRM and [...]