Campaign Monitor’s blog has a post about their new office space , and in it they write about several reasons why private offices are necessary for programmers, including this quote from Paul Graham: “After software, the most important tool to a hacker is probably his office. Big companies think the function of office space is to express rank. But… [more]
Archive for August, 2010
Ian Gilfillan’s article on using indexes in MySQL has a good explanation of how to use the EXPLAIN statement to analyze a query, and what to look out for. You can also check out Jesse Farmer’s optimization tips for a primer on more advanced techniques.
The Endian router/firewall appliance comes with a Dynamic DNS client that supports the major DDNS providers, but it doesn’t support updating OpenDNS, which is necessary for any custom settings on your OpenDNS account to be applied to the traffic you pass through their servers. It’s possible to configure this yourself, though. There’s a helpful post… [more]





