Using s3cmd to make interactaction with Amazon S3 easier, including simple backups
A guide to configuring s3cmd, managing Amazon S3 buckets and objects, automating MySQL backups, and verifying backup retention and integrity.
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Recruiters - Before You Call, Do a Little Research
Why technical recruiters should research a company's technology, projects, clients, and hiring needs before presenting candidates or requesting interviews.
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Why custom sales tools can reduce grunt work, surface useful prospect data, and encourage experimentation while increasing team productivity and sales capacity.
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A tour of five hackable summer gadgets—Parrot AR Drone, Sphero, Pebble, Jawbone UP, and Raspberry Pi—and ideas for building with their SDKs and data.
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How PHP dispatch tables replace growing switch statements with indexed anonymous functions, making case logic easier to edit and side effects easier to reason about.
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