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Apple now lets anyone try the latest beta of OS X for free | VentureBeat | Business | by Harrison Weber
http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/22/apple-launches-new-beta-testing-program-for-os-x/
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DHH: TDD is dead. Long live testing.
http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html
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Hibiscus Payment Server – successfully upgraded to 2.6.5
http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2013/11/15/hibiscus-payment-server-hbci-banking/ – added the migration steps there everything was fine, the .json files (that I exptract) are just the same – I like it very much that way
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upgrading my selfhosted WordPress’s core to 3.9 – initially that was a mere disaster
After the upgrade my blogs were not available any longer. It looked like a serious database problem. I felt in disaster mode for days (because I went on a holiday and I did not immediately have the time to solve the issue). It wasn’t really a big deal, but I wasn’t able to find this […]
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Facebook: videos on my News Feed auto-play without my confirmation
https://www.facebook.com/help/633446180035470 For Android and iOS they (Facebook) allow to restrict this to “Auto-play videos on Wi-Fi only” but even with my MacBook I am rather often only “on the Internet” through a 3G/4G modem, and “my data plan” is just as much concerned as a smartphone or tablet owner’s one. I also want to be […]
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Modern Perl 2014 edition is out in print and free online now
http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2014/04/modern-perl-2014-edition-is-out.html
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skype: they de-activated my account, although I sent a text message from it
Then they sent me an e-mail message, that explains me, how to reactivate it, and again: Your balance remains active for 180 days after your last call to a landline or mobile phone; or last text message sent from Skype. I shall see, how true that is. At least it is not that bad to get […]
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World Autism Day – the Waldon Approach
http://www.haaretz.com/life/science-medicine/.premium-1.583161
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the official language spoken in the Maldives is “Divehi”, an Indo-Aryan language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldivian_language A young colleague had his honeymoon in the Maldives, and the question arose, what language they speak there. The bigger issue seemed to be the supply of the muslim island’s / country’s resp. its tourism industry with pork. Pork apparently gets delivered from India.