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WWII Propaganda About Carrots and Night Vision
The Smithsonian magazine has an interesting article on WWII propaganda about carrots and night vision. Besides discussing the cover of how carrots were responsible for aerial combat instead of RADAR, I...
View ArticleAWS Loft Architecture Week – Databases
This version of the AWS Loft is nice as far as “pop-up” conferences go – everything is hosted on the 2nd Floor, so no sprinting up and down stairs every 30 minutes. What’s New in Amazon Aurora for...
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Recent Aviation News – Challenger Bizjet Upset, Appareo’s Stratus Power USB
A couple of interesting aviation news items this week … The Challenger 604 bizjet that was upset by A380 wake turbulence on Jan. 7 appears to have been totalled. Challenger 604 Bizjet Similar to...
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Cisco ASR 920: A router with a fear of heights?
TheRegister has an article about a Cisco recall on the ASR 920 Series Aggregation Services Routers PSUs I enjoy reading TheRegister, but this article is a little light on research. Looking around...
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Blog More Awesome than ‘Enumerated’?
Just revelling in Nick Szabo’s awesome essay blog, Unenumerated. The world’s oldest gold artifact – a small bead from the lower Danube river basin (4,600-4,500 BC). [Source] My favorite essays so far:...
View Articlesv.pm.org: Moose (OO Perl)
Tonite at Silicon Valley Perl Mongers, Venugopal gave a talk on “Moose (OO Perl).” It was a dark and stormy nite, but a dozen members still arrived. Venugopal did a great job explaining how Moose...
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Percona Live MySQL Conference 2017
Percona Live 2017 was again a well-organized and well-attended Open Source database conference this year in Santa Clara. Peter Zaitsev, Co-founder and CEO, Percona Each year a different conference...
View ArticleTruly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy – No More Hacks!
Landmark “corporate” technical blog post from Willy Tarreau titled “Truly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy – No More Hacks!” Summary is that there is progress concerning HAProxy zero-downtime reloads on...
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Ecommerce Weather Report for Manila in 2017
This is a follow-up to my 2016 post. Not much new in mid-2017 for online shopping sites, but some payment processing changes to checks, credit cards and Philippines Check Image Clearing System (CICS):...
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Sharing Economy in China 2017
Reuters article on the “sharing economy” in China: China’s slam dunk ‘sharing economy’ booms, but can it last? “Twelve firms renting out power banks – typically compact, mobile battery chargers –...
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Dutch King reveals he secretly piloted KLM passenger flights
I used to fly with the Chief Flight Instructor (CFI) for one of these flying kings. Ask me about it sometime! Dutch King reveals he secretly piloted KLM passenger flights for 21 years
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Redis Conference 2017
I went to RedisConf 2017 Wed. and Thu. at the Marriott Marquis in SF hosted by RedisLabs. About 2,000 people showed up – initially surprising to me, but then Redis is more than a key-value store. Kudos...
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Debugging CSS for Programmers
In the 90’s and 00’s, programmers used to scorn front-end designers who called writing HTML “programming.” That changed to fear when CSS arrived and pixel-perfect results raised the bar. Here’s some...
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Configuring IPv6 on Linux CentOS
Configuring IPv6 is this easy if your ISP is IPv6-ready on CentOS 5 and 7: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-my_interface file, note the settings that start with “IPV6” DNS2=2001:4860:4860::8888 –...
View ArticleSkype and Facetime Tips for Older Mac OS X Versions
PSA for Mac OS X users on older machines like Lion and Mountain Lion: if you’re stuck on Skype 6.15, and can’t do video chat after the Microsoft’s July 3, 2017 breaking update … Apple Facetime is a...
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Lecture: Silicon Valley Perl Meetup – REST API Server Programming With Perl
I gave a talk at the Silicon Valley Perl Meetup on “REST API Server Programming With Perl.” Here are the slides: Part 1: “The REST API Landscape in 2017” Part 2: “REST API Server Programming with Perl,...
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Perl, DBI and MySQL utf8mb4 Character Set Support
MySQL’s modern UTF-8 encoding is named utf8mb4 (4 bytes), not utf8 (3 bytes.) For new applications, especially web, you should start with utf8mb4. For existing applications, you need to decide if an...
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Distributed Systems Laws Applied to Distributed Databases
Avery’s Law of Distributed Systems Reliability: “Distributed systems are more reliable when you can get a service from one node OR another. They get less reliable when a service depends on one node AND...
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Solr Meetup at Cloudera in Palo Alto
Cloudera hosted another Solr Meetup at their office in Palo Alto. About 30 people attended. Two software engineers from Cloudera did presentations tonite: 1) Michael Sun talked about his nitely Solr...
View ArticleAir Canada 759 Near-Miss at SFO on July 7, 2017
On July 7, 2017 an Air Canada jet nearly landed on a busy taxiway, Charlie, and had to do a go-around at SFO. It missed another airliner on the taxiway by less than 100′, and other airliners behind the...
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