Random Thought: MySQL is the Perl of RDBMS
While chatting with a few SVN hackers at OSCON, it occured to me that MySQL is the Perl of RDBMS. Discuss among yourselves.
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a set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) in a large number of languages of a potentially large set of programs.
–from http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/
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Lars Eilebrecht writes:
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Machine-readable licensing blocks
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… and the "Best Quote of the Week" award goes to:
Andrei Zmievski, for the following inspired snippet:
"Oh, if you are using a mail reader that screws up message threading, I will hunt you down and stuff you full of Perl internals until you look like a camel."
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GTD tickler functionality in Mail.app
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From November 8th to 10th, some of MySQL's core developers and key community members are getting together in Frankfurt for the MySQL ComCon Europe.
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