recent tweets
- I love playing the "I wonder how long *this* query will take" game. said 7 minutes ago
- TFW your new Oil Temp sensor on the JPI and the replaced factory gauge appear to agree. Oh, and that's the best LOP… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… said 3 days ago
- seems like there's a market opportunity to create "Google Maps for Backhoe Operators"... if Google Maps knows the l… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… said 4 days ago
- @zerodotjander That's the winning answer--in the sense that it's correct, but totally not discoverable. said 1 week ago
- @tony4d That's like trying to kill a fly with a very large hammer. said 1 week 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
9 Comments
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
3 Comments
