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Database versioning techniques

October 17th, 2003 by Jilles

Today I had an interesting discussion with one of my colleagues. The problem being discussed had already troubled my mind a few months back, but was driven out of my mind by other, more pressing, problems (deadlines, etc.). The problem, as the title of this article suggests, is database versioning techniques. Vie searched the internet [...]

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Mutex, oh mutex, why didn’t I think about you?

October 16th, 2003 by Jilles

Today something reminded me of something I picked up from Jeffrey Richter, who talked about Mutexes in his book (Programming Windows Applications). I just failed to apply the principle to something that lives in a different context. The mutexes which I learned about were Windows API programming. The problem I faced was in shell scripting [...]

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