Throughout my career I've had the opportunity to work for a few shops that claimed to be 'Agile' but were really just using the term poorly and inflicting increasing amounts of stress on the developers by trying to manage a non-agile process/project in an agile manner.
7Jan/090
MySQL Dump Compatibility
At my current job I am constantly dumping mysql databases from a v5 server to import into a v3 server. In order for this to work, I have to dump the database in a mode that is compatible with version 3. Here is a quick reference for the compatibility modes available for mysqldump.
16Sep/086
Task Based Time Tracking
As a developer. it is very common to be required to report actual time spent working on a project or task. Sometimes the data is used for project planning, and sometimes your time is actually billed back to the customer. Over the last few years, I have used a variety of means of tracking time, some that made me cringe, and some that are almost a pleasure to use.
