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Sunday, 29 April 2007
A few weeks ago I wrote about lame corporate proxy servers which mangle the HTTP request headers on behalf of their employees and customers and therefore cause them to be denied access to websites such as this one.
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007
Unless our clients can give us a compelling reason to do otherwise, this is our preferred methodology for testing browser compatibility with CSS:
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Friday, 20 April 2007
Nate Anderson over at Ars Technica quotes an IDC report that predicts this is the year where spam will for the first time outnumber real email. I have no idea how the folks at IDC came to that conclusion but looking at our own ISP’s internal statistics, that’s already happened well before this year.
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Monday, 16 April 2007
It’s not that I’m the only person in the world who is busy. We’re all busy. But far too often, I get an email which struggles to get my attention due to the subject line being either a single short word, too ambiguous, irrelevant or simply missing.
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007
As part of regular ongoing database housekeeping, you should repair and optimise your MySQL tables on a regular basis.
To repair one or more tables:
repair table table1, table2, table3, table4, table5;
To optimise one or more tables:
optimize table table1, table2, table3, table4, table5;
Depending on how dynamic your database is, you should probably aim to do both of the above at least once a month. And always repair your tables before your optimise them.
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