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When you run a SELECT statement through MySQL client library (or some driver implemented on top of it, such as Perl's DBD::mysql or PHP...

"Design" is a word which seems to be used differently by distinct groups of people. In software engineering, the word has an almos...

Today Google demonstrates to us how not to update critical platform software: the latest stable version 35.0.1916.114 contains "a numbe...

If you find yourself stuck in an initramfs Busybox shell, trying to manually mount the root filesystem (using a command such as mount /dev/m...

Software engineering, just like any kind of engineering, is a discipline which involves many informed, planned compromises—a surprising amou...

I took some quick notes comparing procedural and functional programming approaches after listening to Brian Lonsdorf's talk about Unders...

MySQL 5.6 introduces a new feature - you can talk to the InnoDB enginge using the memcached protocol, which is supposed to be faster for sim...