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Developer Catchup: Rust 1.0 and Node reunification
Rust wakes up First up, Rust has reached version 1.0, though this is an announcement that was hardly unexpected. It has a lot to live up to given the Rust web site goes for such unloaded language as...
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Node.js and Docker realigned
It’s not really a surprise, but after just over six months since the “forking” of both Node.js and Docker, the two different projects have ended up back in some sort of alignment. For Node.js, it was...
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Snippets – ODF 1.2, Meteor 1.2 and NodeMCU customised
Finally – ODF 1.2 is an ISO standard. This was an important iteration of the Open Document Format. Version 1.2 filled in the elephant in the room in previous versions, that elephant being a lack of...
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Just a note…
Yes, it has been quiet here. Things have been busy elsewhere and I’m in the process of reworking what and how I’ll be populating Codescaling. I’m currently leaning to talking more about the scaled down...
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From my other output….
I’ll be posting some of my regular items I do elsewhere here from now on and…. one thing I write every Friday us Compose’s Little Bits. Here’s what’s in the latest: Postgres-BDR goes 1.0, MongoDB...
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Here comes 2017 and…
Well, 2017 is days away and it’s time to make some decisions about this blog. The options are simple, shut it down and make a new personal blog in the style of Codescaling, or carry on here just...
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Pi GPIO on USB – It’s neat….
Just popped in a pre-order for RyanTech’s latest. It’s a board with a 40 pin Pi header, USB connector and software for Pixel, Linux, OSX and other operating systems which lets you drive it like a Pi’s...
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NewsBits March 3
Here’s the bits of news I gathered for Compose.com – NewsBits March 3.
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Here’s another little batch of database news I did at the day job…. enjoy.
View ArticleESP32s and Python and more
An edifying weekend saw me looking at a whole load of ESP32 based boards – The WiPy 2.0, the Sparkfun ESP32 Thing and the Huzzah32… and in turn a whole set of MicroPython variants… MicroPython is a...
View ArticleSome Newsbits…
Over at Compose, where I work, I do a Friday news roundup, and here is this weeks NewsBits. There’s stuff about Riak, Go, OmniDB and a fun thing about fake RAM chips.
View ArticleNews, by me…
Here’s my database-y, cloud-y, developer-y news round up for the week – It’s NewsBits on the big releases on the week and more.
View ArticleSome bits of codescaling….
Recent writings from me This weeks Newsbits where the bestest daily tool for PostgreSQL gets to 1,0, MySQL jumps some versions and Samba has a password problem. Stunneling to Redis where we use a neat...
View ArticleNewsbits…. April 20th
The day job gets me writing news of Friday and what a databasey news week. FoundationDB open sourced, MySQL 8 going GA… check it out in Compose’s NewsBits.
View ArticleNewsBits – TLS for Redis – Could be!
What I write during my day job – Here’s my Friday Newsbits where you can find out about Redis getting native TLS, the other MySQL update, the latest Node.js 10 and Flask 1.0 and more. Do let us know if...
View ArticleThis Friday’s Bits….
Did that NewsBits Thing so you can read about TiDB, a database in PHP, Code’s latest update and Rowhammer in your pocket.
View ArticleThat Friday Feeling
It’s Friday and here’s the new NewsBits with database updates galore, malware in dependencies, a new DB based on MySQL, the latest Rust and Sublime Text and mmm… CloudEvents (not a conference (not yet...
View ArticleA little late but here’s last week’s news…
Friday’s news, still fresh… read it over at Compose Articles. Fresh MongoDB and PostgreSQL development versions on the road to production, MariaDB’s TX does Oracle and more. Enjoy.
View ArticleRebooting Codescaling – Keyboard Kickoff
I’ve not been blogging much here, but thats going to change. Fresh lick of theme, and… we’re off. First up, this Ortho-linear keyboard from OLKB. I have a distinct keyboard fetish and I don’t think...
View ArticleKindle hacking and clocking…
There’s a super little Instructable on how to make a Literary clock using a Kindle. Well, I happened to have an old school original Kindle 3 about and dived it. Some observations…. The jailbreaking...
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