Showing a Column as a UNIX Timestamp in MySQL
While MySQL has quite an assortment of date and time formats which it supports, I usually find it most convenient to store timestamps as an IN...
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Keeping Your Warcraft Addons Up To Date
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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Is Out on November 13th
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David Foster Wallace Has Left the Building
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Apple’s iPod Event on September 9th
Tuesday September 9th 2008 (today as I finish this; I meant to get this out sooner) is a special Apple event called “Let’s Rock” - although they haven’t spec...
Welcome to dot-dot-romkey
And the environment that I work in has changed and become much more complex… where two decades ago a piece of software most likely ran from the command-line,...