The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from
- Google Drive
- Amazon S3
- Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore
- Dropbox
- Google Cloud Storage
- Amazon Drive
- Microsoft One Drive
- Hubic
- Backblaze B2
- Yandex Disk
- The local filesystem
Source: rclone – rsync for cloud storage
This looks interesting. It’s open source on Github, cross platform, and could solve any number of issues when working in the cloud.
Animation isn’t easy, but the good news is that open source supplies plenty of high-quality animation tools.
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you?
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PHP-the-language has many flaws, which undoubtedly have slowed these efforts down, but PHP-the-environment has virtues which more than compensate for those flaws. And the options for improving on PHP’s language-level flaws are pretty impressive. On the balance, PHP provides better support for building, changing, and operating a successful project than competing environments. I would start a new project in PHP today, with a reservation or two, but zero apologies.by Keith Adams, Slack Engineering
Source: Taking PHP Seriously
Rather interesting to learn that the server side of Slack is written in PHP. I guess I assumed it was a Ruby or Go thing. I think it’s useful to hear about success stories for a mature language like PHP. It shows us that just because something has been around for awhile doesn’t mean it can’t do something cool.
Are you ready to share your OPML? :: Scripting News http://scripting.com/2016/10/12/areYouReadyToShareYourOpml.html
One Journal’s Defection from The Bluebook – Its Reasons and 6-Page Replacement « Citing Legally http://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=733
There are a number of different models and versions of the Raspberry Pi computer. But which one is best for your project?
Source: Which Raspberry Pi should you choose for your project?
The RPi is really developing into a fine eco-system for the DIY computer hobbyist. This article reviews the specs for Raspberry Pi variants to help you choose the right one for your project.
