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Matt Reid

Solo Entrepreneur | Lead Software Architect

I was tasked with writing a quick report from an existing sql in a hibernate 3 and spring mvc application that I have been working on. I decided that the quickest way to get this done would be to create a new POJO and use the existing sql as a...

Today I had to select a distinct column on a DB2 table but I also wanted the query ordered. When I tried select distinct title from product order by price, qty the sql compiler complained that it didn’t recognise the order by statement. After a while of googling the problem,...

I have finally got round to getting an issue tracker for FixtureFeed and am using the wonderful cubeon to track issues in netbeans. You can track the latest issues on FixtureFeed Google Code I am planning to use google project hosting to track issues for all the CodeFish apps so...

For my latest CodeFish project, I needed to be able to upload files to dropbox from my SheevaPlug. This gave me the perfect opportunity to try my first bit of Python code. I found PythonDropboxUploader and decided to fork it on GitHub (my first time using git as well!). The...

I was recently questioned by Hannah Suppiah about writing code to calculate fibonacci numbers and it brought my uni days flooding back. As an illustrative tool and a quick bit of nostalgia, I wrote this simple JQuery example of the fibonacci tree. There 2 lines of JQuery needed to work...