recent tweets
- @sandidog_don Thanks for your help on the Integration, Don! said 5 hours ago
- Today I unpacked and tested our Gumstix experiment payload which flew outside the International Space Station for 6… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… said 8 hours ago
- "I kinda of want to approve it just so I can close the tab and try to unsee it" is something I actually said while reviewing code today. said 2 days ago
- TFW you edit a file only to later realize that it was full of tabs and all your new changes contain spaces said 2 days ago
- Time for some snowmelt... https://t.co/rZEBwKTroQ said 4 days ago
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Perl, MD5, and Unicode
Pro Tip: Perl’s Digest::MD5 hates Unicode (and so should you). Here’s what I recently learned from perldoc Digest::MD5 recently (the hard way, of course): Perl 5.8 support Unicode characters in strings. Since the MD5 algorithm is only defined for strings … Continue reading
Posted in perl, programming
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Databases 10 Years Ago
In preparation for the talk I’m giving tomorrow, I was assembling a slide that looks back about 10 years ago and remembering what our database infrastructure was like back then. I was at Yahoo! during that time and our leading-edge … Continue reading
Posted in mysql, tech
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