We released Minion Backup 1.1 and Minion Reindex 1.2 this week! We’ve got a some great new features, and a number of bug fixes. New features in brief: Minion Backup can now back up to NUL. Minion Reindex has improved error trapping and logging, and new statement prefix and suffix options! Minion Backup 1.1 The one page MB Highlights PDF is a good […]
Category: People and Opinions
I am not a “wogrammer”
So apparently the COO of Facebook is trying to make the word “wogrammer” – a woman programmer – a thing. (Thanks to Vicky Harp for pointing out this infuriating thing.) I cannot stress how fundamentally opposed I am to this, new, stupidest of ideas. Why? Let’s delve into a little bit of common wordage. Here […]
The real secret of why so few women are in IT
The background, briefly: Last night, one @jessicard noted a job specification that offered “Making it rain on dem hoes” (among other things) for a backend coder that is “totally gay for code”. Those are direct quotes. It wasn’t an April Fool’s post. The man that posted the job opening – a mister Tomi K. – also […]