When I was young, my father owned a series of Commodore machines, the last one being an Amiga 500 .  BASIC was for chumps, and our only othe...

I am late to the party, but I have been playing with Generators in PHP more, and running into the limitations of module boundaries. Some m...

Editor’s Note: this post was penned offline early Friday evening, before the author had knowledge of the issue being resolved, and fiserv pr...

There’s a comic about simplicity : how an Apple product has one place to touch, a Google product has one search field, and “your company’s a...

When I was a n00b on the internets, I heard whisperings about awful, over-complex “rule based systems” out there, somewhere.  Programmers sc...

We originally had the “automatic minor version upgrade” option active at Amazon RDS.  This option simply does not work very well.  Sometimes...

I had a hard time getting IPv6 to work properly on my VPS. It has a static address, which I published to DNS (ages ago), but it wasn’t fully...