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- @nelson @joplinapp I had no idea that existed... cool. Thanks! said 47 minutes ago
- @nelson It seems like the "mistake" of social media might be the decision for things to be public by default. said 4 hours ago
- @jeremycole It is functional. 🙂 said 1 day ago
- No smoke, a few clouds, nice cool breeze... I like this Fall view of Pine Mountain Lake. https://t.co/dkRYJ73muY said 1 day ago
- Headline of the Day: "GOP Group That Fights Against Vaccine Mandates And For Election Integrity Might Miss Campaign… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 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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