Garbage collection, in a very real sense
Steve Yegge on *Emacs, pointing also to the possible future direction of the *browser:
“IDEs are draining users away, but it’s not the classic fat-client IDEs that are ultimately going to kill Emacs. It’s the browsers. They have all the power of a fat-client platform and all the flexibility of a dynamic system. I said earlier [...]
To rename columns in a SQL Server database, you can use sp_rename. The syntax of the command, in Transact-SQL-ese, is:
sp_rename
[ @objname = ] ‘object_name’ ,
[ @newname = ] ‘new_name’
[ , [ @objtype = ] ‘object_type’ ]
So say you have a table called t_est, with a column in it called est_client. You want to rename these [...]
Assaf writes about, among other things, REST as a simplifier of development against an existing system:
REST plays the same role as open source and open APIs: It eliminates tooling and vendoring as artificial barriers to adoption.
Interestingly, a corollary to this was brought up at Barcamp Brighton this weekend. During Gareth Rushgrove’s talk about REST and [...]
A recent thread on the Drupal development list (started by me, I confess) led to Larry Garfield publishing his development environment online. It’s interesting to see what problems he’s had to solve (and what problems he hasn’t needed to solve).
Our development is explained on those list postings: I’ll put a diagram and more coherent explanation [...]