Just discovered these hits on GA for one of my sites. WTF?

Database tip of the day:

Spent hours on Amazon's DynamoDB and ultimately found it couldn't do what I wanted, not without a complicated workaround.

Switched to Mongo and had it working in literally under 5 minutes.

Hooray for Mongo 😀

"Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity" - David Gelernter

Anyone know any good C Hash jokes?

A beautiful sky blue!

I'm half expecting a plane to crash into it.

A beautiful description of the pioneering hackers, as told by E. S. Raymond

What advice would I give a new dev?
"Learn COBOL"

No one specified that it had to be 'good advice'

I've spent so much time writing terms and conditions, I'm tempted to list it as a feature of my app

@dfox feature request: polls

It would be great to ask (for example) "what's your preferred os?" and have ppl respond by hitting 1 of the 4 options:

a) linux (60%, 600 votes)
b) mac (30%, 300 votes)
c) windows (0%, 0 votes)
d) other (10%, 100 votes)

Sorry if already requested.

// during testing, fortunately!

addresses = [
'user1@blah.com',
...
]

x=0

while ( x < addresses.length ) {
toEmail = addresses[x]
sendEmail ( toEmail )
// forget to increment x
}

// user1 not too happy

Pathetic dev moments: Any time my macbook fans rev up, I worry that I'm working my baby too hard, so I start closing applications.

I told my girlfriend that I love her to bytes.

Get it? Instead of bits? ...sorry

If all devRant users worked in one big office, we'd all be eating a lot of birthday cake

I'm not an iOS expert, I just wanted to get Google ads on my iOS app so that I could make a few petty dollars at the expense of my users. Is that too much to ask?

I started by following Google's instructions: install cocoapods, copy and paste some swift code... Compile failed, app broke. Carefully retrace my steps. Nothing.

Stackoverflow (praise be with them) suggests upgrading Xcode. Go to app store and click to upgrade Xcode. No progress bar, no status updates, just that pissy little spinner for several minutes. I become impatient try a few more times. It ain't happening.

Stackoverflow (holy of holies, defender of the weak) points me to an alternate source for Xcode, on the app store dev console. 4GB and some time later, an attempt to unzip gives "unknown error". Genocide of sorts.

Stackoverflow (all that is pure, all that is kind, all... I think you get it) says upgrade your OS. I tried months ago but I had issues with that pissy little spinner. Persist. 5GB and a "heavy-year" of time later (sorry), it installs. Then Xcode installs. Then bar a few errors, the app compiles.

So after almost 24 hours, life resumes. The lesson.. respond to all obscure iOS errors by upgrading. If fully upgraded, calmly acquire a baseball bat and destroy your machine. Make sure you have a good book nearby in case of either event.

Thank you for reading my rant. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to pay Apple
$150 so that I may list my app in the app store.

Tempted to pour a cup of sugar down there

EVACUATE NOW! Early this morning I was woken by the fire alarm at my apartment. I jumped out of bed and immediately reached for my laptop. After carefully sliding it into its bag (top side up of course), I grasped it tightly, took a deep breath and ran to safety.

When on Earth, print "hello world". When in space, print "hello "?

<script>
alert('Always escape and encode your inputs to avoid XSS attacks');
</script>

Appreciate how lucky we are. We get to say "It's a bug" instead of "I've made mistakes". Suddenly it's not our fault.

Rant: Why bother being creative?

If only I could transfer my devRant upvotes to Stack Overflow...

Devs don't beat around the bush

How's this for an idea? Find an old meme and post it on devRant

The Galaxy Note7 is 'lighter' than ever

Most embarrassing dev moments:
Many years ago before I knew anything about javascript minification, I opened a .min.js file and thought "wow the guy who wrote this must be insanely smart"

I'm no expert but doesn't Windows use the backslash?

I love coding to bits but the bugs really byte