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Great products, small productive teams. A place to work! Automattic Raises $160 Million, Valued at $1.16 Billion http://t.co/o5BWgJBKHy — Hacker News Bot (@newsycombinator) May 5, 2014 Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and other Web publishing tools, has raised $160 million from investors. Including Insight Venture Partners, CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed. The round values the nine-year-old company at $1.16 billion. After the investment, which is its first since it raised $12 million in 2008....

Joshua Priddle did a great job back in DotBlock accomplishing Ruby binding for WHMCS API. Unfortunately, last signs of activity were 3 years ago. It’s a pity, as gem is great, and works like charm, but it became massively outdated, and piled with pull requests no one merged in the master branch for ages. The code was published by MIT license on 2011, thus whmcs-api gem will be its descendant, which I’ll try to keep updated as much as possible....

Honestly, I couldn’t get the idea of non-latin alphabet used in domain names. Especially when the standards were passed, and Registrars started offering cyrillic, arabic domain names, but web browsers still were preferring to output it as a punycode mess. A pretty simple cyrillic domain like ‘президент.рф’ (stands for president.rf) becomes ‘xn–d1abbgf6aiiy.xn–p1ai’. Not all the browsers still keep cyrillic domains in the address bars, so you’d see some punycode mess in there....

CRAP is short for Change Risk Anti-Patterns – an acronym to protect you from deeply offensive code. Measures the C.R.A.P. (Change Risk Anti-Patterns) score. It is designed to analyze and predict the amount of effort, pain, and time required to maintain an existing body of code. A method with a CRAP score over 30 is considered CRAPpy (i.e., unacceptable, offensive, etc.). C.R.A.P.(m) = comp(m)^2 * (1 – cov(m)/100)^3 + comp(m) Where comp(m) is the cyclomatic complexity of method m, and cov(m) is the test code coverage provided by automated tests....

Slack: communication tools This is just a perfect example of B2B communication tools. Free to 8USD/mo+ is more than enough to setup a standard communication tool in a small company (i.e. startup, or SMB) just to cut the never ending story on xmpp/skype/email/etc. And as any geek, they got me on “integration” section: GitHub Asana Dropbox Nagios For those who’s got a missing bit of team communication in their shipping/communication chain for product delivery....

X:- Hey, we’ve recently launched a cool piece of NDA in our proprietary NDA. Y:- Sounds great. How did you manage to prototype it? X:- Well, we took some NDA, with NDA, cuz the first one had some problems with caching, and with some NDA, we got this NDA to work! Y:- Why did you use this NDA, when NDA we use in the company does NDA better, it’s more NDA, NDA and NDA that this!...

Seems that we have a competitor to “export to csv” SQL query that I keep forgetting every time I need to export something in the CSV file. The second nominee is reinserting the row into the same database but with a new primary key. # YOURID - source record # yourtable - target table; CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp_table SELECT * FROM yourtable WHERE id=YOURID; SELECT @new_id:=((SELECT id FROM yourtable ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1) + 1); UPDATE tmp_table SET id=@new_id WHERE id = YOURID; INSERT INTO yourtable SELECT * FROM tmp_table WHERE id=@new_id;

Recent post from Wynn made me cry, because I’ve realized that I haven’t been updating some of the API documentations for quiet some time! Whether I'm working on [docs](http://developer.github.com/), [guides](http://developer.github.com/guides/), or [books](http://wynnnetherland.com/books), Vim is my jam. In order to curb my use of these weasel words, I added some [formatting rules](https://github.com/pengwynn/dotfiles/commit/12159ea233180344be4e25d57056ccd37061a153) to my[dotfiles](https://github.com/pengwynn/dotfiles). > > Forked, added. Doc files are sparkling with these parasite words.

On the heels of our 500px Marketplace relaunch, we are hard at work building a brand new commercial licensing marketplace based on the feedback of our 500px Community. This new marketplace will service commercial licensors of photography from the news, editorial, advertising and various other communities who are interested in licensing work by members of the 500px community. If you are interested in commercially licensed photography from 500px, join our mailing list to be kept updated on our progress toward launch....