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You could consider ‘partitioning’ your DB when you migrate your schema so each DB instance only deals with a single bitemporal slice eg after 5 migrations you have 5 distinct datab…

This is interesting, but I think there's an implicit assumption here that a particular topic must be covered in depth, at which point its study is completed, not to be returned to.…

A few years ago, I recall being impressed at the clealiness of the toilets in Edinburgh train station. An attendant was diligently wiping each urinal with a cloth, and also used th…

If you didn't already know that Ruby scripts can be written in a very similar way to awk, this makes for a good read. http://tomayko.com/writings/awkward-ruby

Dev tank is on Monday, if you ask nicely you might be able to skip the waiting list http://www.meetup.com/DevTank/calendar/15487391/ If you're still around on Thu 9th, you could ch…

I think you've already done the most important thing you could by creating a separate room that delineates home life from office life. The biggest distraction I've found while work…

When I was employed as a developer, I was quite obsessive about refactoring my code to the point where I considered it elegant. Now I run my own company and am the sole developer. …

I like the speed and simplicity, but without the ability to import contacts, I'm going to treat it more like a toy than a tool.

A contrasting approach - when Mo Ibrahim set up a mobile network in African counties he knew a no-bribe approach wouldn't fly, so bribes were limited $30,000. http://www.guardian.c…