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> While JinjaSQL can handle insert/update statements, you are better off using your ORM to handle such statements. JinjaSQL is mostly meant for dynamic select statements that an OR…

This is a fantastic anecodote and after the year we've had I'm finding the challenges people are having from entering Linux are becoming less and less. Earlier today I marvelled at…

I recently bought a new laptop and dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04. It took me 3 hours to get all the drivers working in Windows whilst the only issue I had with Ubuntu was th…

Locks and Alarms are the lowest common denominator of security - it stops people from walking in but more than anything just gives an illusion of security.

I think there is more to it than a buzzword though, the HTML5 way of doing web ie, paving the cow paths is radically different to the methodologies of XHTML, such that the range of…

Welcome to the wild west, where we blog first and confirm later.

Congratulations to the guys at Pin! As an Australian, I welcome this wholeheartedly. It has been extremely frustrating watching the payment revolution in the states, whilst at home…

I remember early on in my web development career to make sure you are selling a service not a product. You aern't building a website - you are providing a marketing service, requir…

If you place rate limiting on email accounts by default and then for the lower percent of users that need a higher rate do it on a case-by-case basis. In my experience most users t…

What exactly makes it impractical to do powerful things? You may have disdain for certain language features but I don't understand how that makes it impractical. Most of the tech d…

I would consider that a contradictory statement. In order to provide the best range of browser support it is usually necessary to not code to web standards to support older browser…

We're not necessarily talking about "experienced" developers. I know plenty of people who have set up their own self-hosted WordPress instances for their personal blogs who don't k…

PHP has a much larger install base on commercial web hosts than Ruby, so I would consider it a perfect tool for a self-hosted application. Also keep in mind PHP5 is not the same re…

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If HATEOAS implementation was more widespread the biggest advantage would be the ability to create standard libraries for API calls rather than thin wrappers for every language. Yo…

Chris Coyier has a great blog entry [1] on using and creating custom fonts but Font Squirrel [2] is my tool of choice for generating cross-browser font files and the markup to embe…

I know quite a few people who find HN to be a great source of news but don't feel like they meet the 'community standard' to submit a comment.

Whilst using CSS pseudo elements to generate shapes is useful, I believe it's ill suited to iconography when the better solution is to use a custom web font. We've had a lot of suc…

I think you've misunderstood the post. There are jobs available to work on "big things" and there are jobs to work on "small things". Job advertising provides a really nice set of …