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If you have a table that contains a mix of date formats, here is a PHP script that will convert the old deprecated MySQL date formats to the new ones.
When talking about serverless there are several major cloud function providers. Here is a brief comparison of supported languages and pricing as of November 2019.
If you are running a dual boot Windows/Linux Mint computer, the NTFS DATA partition may get mounted as read-only due to Windows Fast Startup. Here is how to fix it.
Linux Mint does not come with battery watcher. Here is a small bash script that will watch the battery and notify you once it goes under a specified percentage.
Attempting to install the IBM Cloud Developer Tools on Linux Mint 19.2 (Tina) will throw an error. Here is how to fix it by making a small change to the installer.
When working with Laravel logging into a file is easy. However, when commands run under a more privileged user than the web user, permission denied errors can occur. Here is how to solve it.
Sometimes you may need to execute a NetBeans platform action programmatically. Here is how to invoke an action from anywhere in your application using its ActionID.
Here is a list of embedded databases, where each database embeds your files as part of the application. You no longer need a database server.
Here is how to select all users registered yesterday using the Entity Framework Code First.
The Zen of Python is a collection of 20 software principles that influences the design of Python Programming Language, written by Tim Peters around June 1999.
Here are two use-cases why writing log files in Lumen/Laravel can lead to a permission denied error and how to avoid them by separating log files per invoke environment.
SQLiteDB is a cloud hosting service for SQLite database. Here is a quick way to create a contact form which saves the results in SQLiteDB using the remote API.