A cron job that worked perfectly for six months suddenly runs two hours early. A payment dashboard shows yesterday's revenue in today's column. Session tokens expire at unpredictable times. These bugs ...
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The Mysql2 gem is meant to serve the extremely common use-case of connecting, querying and iterating on results. Some database libraries out there serve as direct 1:1 mappings of the already complex C ...
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Learn core database concepts by implementing a Python key-value store with crash recovery and efficient writes. In this tutorial, we’ll build a simple but functional database from scratch with Python.
Quite often in my practice, I see people use varchar fields with a small and limited number of available options. Let's check out today what field data type is better and will be the best approach for ...
NodeMCU is a low-cost open-source IoT platform that initially included firmware which runs on the ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC from Espressif Systems, and hardware which was based on the ESP-12 module. If you ...
Occasionally it may be useful to visualize a continuous stream of data arriving through a serial connection as a web page in a browser. But how do you go about? May we suggest a bit of scripting?