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Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached
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Rob Pike on regular expressions in lexing and parsing
Comments extracted from a code review. I've been asked to disseminate them more widely. I should say something about regular expressio...
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Continuous Integration Failure? Use USB Missiles
Stay up-to-date with the latest print management news, tips, and insights. Explore articles on print security, cost reduction, and sustainability.
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Best algorithms book I ever read
Best algorithms book I ever read I took a fair amount of time looking at data structures and algorithms while I was st...
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Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki
Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki A year ago, my good friend Casey Watson suggested that I try using a per...
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Do not upgrade to PHP 5.3.7 due to a bug in crypt()
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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This is CoffeeScript
I’ve been writing some CoffeeScript lately, and it’s been fantastic. I wish I...
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Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
Way back in September 1983, I started my first real job, working at Oranim, a big bread factory in Israel that made something like 100,000 loaves of bread every night in six giant ovens the size of…
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Do all first links on Wikipedia lead to philosophy?
wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at Philosophy.
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Coding backwards
For a while I’ve wanted to write some personal finance software. Call me crazy, but I can’t find anything currently in existence that allows me to project my earnings and expenses 1 , then summarizes the net effect over a period of time. Basically, I want to be able to propose a budget to myself and simulate how it…
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A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm
You don’t bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn around a PC and device maker.
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Why Arabic is Terrific
I just finished a summer studying Arabic at the Monterey Institute for International Studies, an enjoyable adventure that I hope to write about in more detail later. MIIS offers a nine-week program in a bunch of languages and is just down the road from a grim military counterpart called the Defense Language Institute…
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How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate?
credit Having been back in the freelance world for a while now, I once again have to deal with quoting my clients an hourly rate for long-term contract work on an ongoing basis. I've been able to...
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I am nothing
On a scale of one to ten, how good of a cog are you? How well do you function in your assigned role? How much of a man or woman are you? How...
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If PHP Were British
PHP, as the result of a spectacular error of judgement, appears to be written in US English. How do we developers ensure the traditions of the British Empire continue to be upheld, even in the digital age?
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Nym Wars (Google+ "real name" rules)
I hadn't been paying much attention to the Google "Real Names" clusterfuck, because it was so obvious to me that they were going to lose this one in the press that it would all be over soon. But it's still not over, and the Google brass appear to be digging in their heels, despite the universally bad press they're…
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How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.