While going through the DATA TYPES section of the Certification Study Guide, I was refreshed of the ENUM datatype, which I rarely use. I usually create individual tables for enumerations, so that new values can be added with just an insert, or deprecated values can be marked as such. However,...

I'm taking the MySQL Certification exams soon, and while I'd love to take advantage of official training, the closest classes near me will be in Buenos Aires (just a few hundred kilometers and an estuary away) in over a month, and I hope to be done with the Developer exams...

Coding Horror always has insightfull articles, and this one on code peer reviews is no exception. Why is it that writers, musicians and, well, any respected and professional artist or scientist gets his/her work reviewed before it's published, but the same isn't true in IT? My guess? Most programmers aren't...

Heavy testing, headphones with no music, lots of Sanchez Gran Reserva, headphones with Miles Davis, more testing, an updated Installation Guide, Charles Mingus & Eric Dolphy, and I still couldn't get a Release Candidate out. Well, such is the life of the multi purpose hacker. Other people are always finding...

From the 'just because it can be done' column, here comes a handy shell script to generate random salts. So, without further ado,  here it goes: #!/bin/bash [ $# -eq 0 ] && { echo "usage: salt <length>">&2 exit } strings </dev/urandom | while read line; do echo $line |...