Alexey Zakhlestins blog

MySQL is a very strange database. That’s why it has such strange bugs
It does support cross-database delete, but only if you do not specify aliases for tables. Unfortunately, there are situations, when aliases are vital

If you still use INI file for some of your PHP-projects configuration, I guess it is time for you to migrade to YAML which is more flexible and has way more expressiveness. Here is a little tool to help you in migration process

<?php
require “Spyc.php”;
if ($argc != 3)
[...]

MySQL console has a long history of not properly counting column-widths for multibyte data. This was fixed in 4.1.12/5.0.25
Although, with a little catch. You have to start mysql console with “–default-character-set=utf8″ key or it will fall back to it’s “classical” behavior

Understanding of monads is an iterative process.. At one moment you think you understand them good enough, and the very next moment you know that everything you know is wrong.
So, one more good article for the next iteration

To whom it may concern: WHATWG started a blog some time ago.