Random ramblings at it's finest
I’ll be breaking down the following command part by part: time dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dat bs=1024 count=100000 What does time do? It runs a process and then captures how long it took to execute. What about DD? Well, it’s a command that copies data from a standard input to a standard output. What about the …
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Today’s post is regarding https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/amazon-aws-s3-outage-is-breaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps/ These type of occurrences are becoming more and more common. Tons of company has placed a ton of faith into the Amazon ecosystem, and time and time again, it looks like Amazon has let them down. When these things broke, it broke at a MASSIVE scale (AWS outage knocks Amazon, Netflix, …
Long long time ago, briefly after the birth of gmail, I created an email account, and mail was good. Fast forward to now, holy spams. Years and more than a decade of neglect, I’ve managed to amass more than 11,000 emails, and this is post spam filter. I guess over the years, I must’ve signed …
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I took the PHP Pop Quiz on w3school’s today: http://www.w3schools.com/quiztest/quiztest.asp?qtest=PHP Guess what I got? This relatively old technological dinosaur still has it!
I’ve been out of the loop for a while, and more and more I keep hearing about “composer”. I appears that composer is the new PEAR, so I guess it’s time to get with the program. http://fabien.potencier.org/article/72/the-rise-of-composer-and-the-fall-of-pear
Which one is the BEST framework? Well! There are many ways to benchmarking a framework, speed, adoption, usability and so on. Today, I want to examine the plugin community for these frameworks. I’ve pulled a list from http://hybridauth.sourceforge.net/plugins.html and https://github.com/opauth/opauth/wiki and I plan to review frameworks that are on both URLs, the reason being, is that I …
“We’re on Magento, but we need to upgrade to Hybris!” “Nothing is true, everything is permitted“ I went to magento.com and hybris.com and I took a look at two companies, and then did a benchmark on the two companies. Which of the following do you think is the “better” version? The slower loading one is …
I had a discussion with an industry peer today, regarding databases. Two conclusions he arrived at, which are right, but also wrong. One, “strings have no business being in a SQL statement”, two, “IDs have no basis being in a mapping table”. From a peer data storage and efficiency perspective, you’re correct, but from a …
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It’s that time of the project again, something went wrong, and a goat needs to be sacrificed. As a person who is often found to be in charge of projects, I hold my bosses to the same standards as I hold myself, and underlings. If something goes wrong, the problem goes from the bottom, all …
This topic is a very old an ancient topic, but I’ve arrive definitively at whether or not the main domain should have www, or not. The answer is “it should”. The reason being, is that a cookie set at the domain level, exists for all subdomains. If you have subdomains, or ever plan to have …