I’ve been back and forth between tabs and spaces for code indentation in recent years. My exposure to Python lead me down the path of spaces, while in the past I had stuck to tabs in my PHP, Perl & Java. When its my own code it’s fine to use whichever I feel is […]
I’ve been running MySQL 4.1 on Gentoo on my dev machines for a little while now without any major hangups. A few people have asked me how to get it emerged because they got hungup by the masks in Gentoo whic prevent them from emerging 4.1 and they gave up after the usual ~x86 […]
I’m a Zend Ceritifed Engineer. My paper Zend Certified Engineer certificate arrived in the mail today. I actually took the test back on July 1st during the beta and got word of my passing by mail a few months later. Now Zend is providing the means to authenticate your certification online so I […]
One reason why testing environments are important and why programmers shouldn’t be given access to production environments:
“… This is very bad indeed. 2500 linux servers had to be rebooted. I owe a lot of beers.”
(From "Journal of Matts")
Ouch! I think many of us have made similar mistakes… hopefully only once.
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