MapFight is a fun little web application, which superimposes the maps of two selected countries to show which one is larger and by how much. And the best part is that you don’t even to stick just to countries – the continents are in there as well, so you can compare Europe to Asia, or even Russia to Europe.
OpenSource.com covers the upcoming release of the MySQL 8.
What happened to 6 & 7?
Years ago, before the Sun Microsystems purchase of MySQL AB, there was a version of MySQL with the number 6. Sadly, it was a bit ambitious and the change of ownership left it to wither. The MySQL Cluster product has been using the 7 series for years. With the new changes for MySQL 8, developers feel they have modified it enough to bump the big number.
The new version brings a whole lot of changes to filesystem organization, indexes, faster ALTER TABLE, and more.
GitHub has yet another update to their pricing options. Business plans have been launched with support for SAML single sign-on, 99.95% uptime SLA, 24×5 support with 8 hour response, and more.
Unfortunately it still counts external contributors as users in the account, which makes it too expensive for my organizations, but it’s good to see them trying.
Mind-blowing harmonica skills by Christelle Berthon. If you enjoyed it, check the Gary Moore cover, and the rest of the YouTube channel.
I’ve searched for this before, and I’m sure I’ll do that again (although the need is not that frequent), so here it goes. It is possible to move files from one git repository to another, preserving commit history. The following links provide a few examples of how to do this:
Basically, you need git filter-branch command, usually with the –subdirectory-filter parameter.
An example of where it is useful would be the extraction of some code from a project you have into a shared library or a simple plugin.