Author: johayek
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pitfall: mysqldump vs .my.cnf
It took me quite some time to recognise, that the existence of ~/.my.cnf resp. specifying databases in there disturbs the operation of mysqldump. If you pass a database name on the command line (with or without the command line option “–databases”) and there is a database listed in ~/.my.cnf, this is the kind of error message,…
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Perl Regex Pretty Printer
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1049212 emacs cperl-mode: cperl-beautify-regexp
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Perl Best Practices: Code Layout: “Automated Layout” AKA “enforce your chosen layout style mechanically through perltidy”
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001735.do I really hate code layout wars. I really hate getting forced to follow unreasonable rules. I also hate it, if people do not follow obvious reasonable rules. It gets really bad, if rather strict team coding rules get enforced more on some team members than on others. The pain should at least be the…
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I had this “Page not found” phenomenon on my blogs, and it drove me crazy
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/products-not-found Instead of the desired content, this got shown: “It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try a search?” I searched for this text, got to the above link, and it says: Refreshing links structure under “Settings” has solved the problem. I didn’t precisely find a button named “refreshing links structure …“, but…
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after some upgrading on my WordPress site I only got blank pages from my blogs and the entire site
This kind of trouble started during the weekend, outside the office hours of my web space provider. Once I called them (during their office hours), they provided me with the respective lines from the apache log, and I was able to get my problem solved rather quickly. The “jetpack” directory was rather incomplete – maybe…
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how to update Windows XP after end of support
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Update-Windows-XP-after-End-of-Support-443631.shtml https://www.sebijk.com/community/index.php?thread/2984-xp-updates-weiterbeziehen/ Windows XP is rather similar to “Windows Embedded POSReady 2009” – the latter is actually also named “Windows XP embedded …“. Right now I am updating my WinXP VM (VirtualBox) on my Mac. It works for me. As the information sources say: Microsoft may detect, we are updating our XP-s like that, and…
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Scratch is a programming language and an online community where children can program and …
http://scratch.mit.edu/parents/ : info addressing parents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_programming_languages Scratch is a programming language and an online community where children can program and share interactive media such as stories, games, and animation with people from all over the world. As children create with Scratch, they learn to think creatively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically. Scratch is designed and maintained…
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after upgrading Chromium from 1957 to 1989 there is no longer that constant outbound bandwidth consumption
I desperately wonder, what component had caused that. It cost me quite a few €, when that outbound bandwidth was with my mobile (i.e. “mobile phone”) Internet connection.
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DHH: TDD is dead. Long live testing.
http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html