Last week we ran in to an issue wherein MySQL stopped allowing logins from several of our user accounts. This post documents how that happened, and what you might need to prevent this issue going forward.
I, like most developers, am lazy (which is apparently a virtue!) and recently needed to remove a bunch of CREATE TABLE statements from a mysqldump. The vim macro below is how I accomplished that task.
I've been working for the last six months to build a long-term roadmap for the products at my nonprofit technology company in North Carolina, and one of the products I discovered during my research into data segmentation and analytics tools was Segment.com. I was pretty sure when I found it that I had found something substantially valuable to nonprofits, but it took me a free trial and few months to really wrap my head around the value it brings to any startup or small business struggling with "app fatigue".
My day job is in the process of replacing TinyMCE with another WYSIWYG editor, Quill. Even once that happens, we'll still be supporting existing clients that use TinyMCE, and those clients will likely never receive the "replacement," but they'll still receive updates.
There are excellent tools available for essentially every programming language allowing you to work with dates as objects, because date logic is hard. But it doesn't have to be, and you can make it easier.
An interesting conversation had in the office HipChat, triggered by comments made by Stephen Fry; it definitely amazed me a little, just how many people we had with very strong opinions on religion. Note: all grammatical and spelling errors are the original authors, and are left here for authenticity.
My brother-in-law sent me this article today with the following comment: "It's amazing to think of the differences social media will have on your kids' lives compared to how we grew up..