Nerdery Links
2 May 2008 4:41am GMT Jeff Attwood, of Coding Horror, had a really good post about the default installation of WordPress not coming with any built in caching. If your WordPress site gets any decent traffic, you have to install some sort of caching plugin. In fact, Dreamhost 1-click installs come with wp-cache already installed. Thankfully, there [...]
Fun Stuff Coming in MySQL 6
16 Apr 2008 2:07am GMT According to someone who is liveblogging The Future Of MySQL, MySQL 6, which is currently in alpha, will have some interesting new features that I’m pretty excited to see: a non-blocking replacement of mysqldump for all engines - InnoDB isn’t blocking because it’s transactional, but MyISAM tables are blocking a new default, transactional storage engine - replacing [...]
The Olden Days
16 Apr 2008 1:25am GMT When I think about the application my work used when I first started, I think of this picture: Found at: http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/
My Most Popular Shell Commands
11 Apr 2008 1:11am GMT The following command, well combined commands, will give you a list of your ten most used shell commands. Just nerdy, really. $ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s ",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head 82 grep 74 svn 68 cd 53 ls 31 top20 26 emacs 22 system 17 less 14 rm 13 su Via James
SXSWi 2008 - Friday - Day 1
8 Mar 2008 11:27pm GMT BTW, I’m at the South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) thing again this year. W00t for me. I woke up at 5am to make my way to the airport. I flew Southwest to Austin by way of Dallas. Unlike everyone else who flew the day before, I had 0 problems. I’m quite happy [...]