CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

Honestly, I started writing this article, for no real reason and somewhat without context, in December 2022—over half a year ago! But, I left it in _drafts/ until today, when a genuinely compelling scenario came up that gives real opportunity for explanation. It no longer feels like trivia-for-the-sake-of-it thanks to a recent client project. I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a co

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DZone

JUNE 30, 2023

Developers were told to use ORMs and prepared statements to avoid SQL injections for a long time now. By doing so, they effectively separate instructions (the semantics of the SQL query) from the data. Modern languages and frameworks often also abstract away the need to write raw queries, offering high-level interfaces around our database models. Unfortunately, that's not enough to thwart away SQL injections once and for all, as these APIs can still present subtle bugs or nuances in their design

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Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. The solution is 100% open source and automates the deployment and management of PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes. Percona is also offering 24/7 support and managed services for paying customers.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 30, 2023

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology plays a pivotal role in numerous industries, revolutionizing decision-making processes and providing valuable insights into spatial data. ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute), a global leader in GIS technology, has been at the forefront of developing innovative tools and platforms that enable businesses, governments, and individuals to harness the power of geospatial data for enhanced decis

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2023

I’ve been writing about Agile Management for over 15 years. Along the way, I’ve written (as have many others) how to get Agile practices into a business, how to scale them, how to overcome obstacles to them, and so forth. I’ve also written about how Agile gets co-opted, and a few months ago I wrote about how Agile erodes through workforce attrition and lowered expectations.

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 30, 2023

There’s a single panel comic, made in 2016, that tends to resurface every once in a while. The comic shows an iPhone that is overloaded with ridiculous features: a flip-out keyboard, extendable radio antenna, handstrap, AA battery compartment, kickstand and more. The title of the strip is simply “If Apple was a democracy…”. I saw it again the other day as someone shared it, with a cautionary reminder that decisions about technological products cannot be a democracy.

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