It amazing me the number of options that exist in most unix commands. Here’s my nugget for the day: Not only is regex built into find (obviously), but you can run a command on every file that find…uh, finds.
For example, you have many folders in /web/ with log files of the form *.log.#. You want…
I had a great talk with one of the platform engineers today about killing processes. Here’s a good analogy he told me:
“If your process was a car, kill is put the breaks and come to a stop. kill -9 is a wall in front of the car”
(via ninjasavant)
Quite possible the most semantically correct beer in the world (it’s cider actually, but I’m not going to ruin a Carlsberg quote)
A great visual explanation of SQL joins on Coding Horror, a rewrite of Lig’s awesome post: “Getting” Joins
Before you think about sending an email “hey, can you optimize my query”, please read this article and make sure you’re using your joins as expected.
Also, yay Venn diagrams!
my c++ and obj-c is rusty. so would like the opinion of those who actually use the 2 on a daily basis.