July Queso

1. TechCrunch has a bunch of tech news! TechCrunch Disrupt is a conference these guys put on. I only know about this from watching that Silicon Valley TV show.
2. Midway Games which did Ms. Pac-Man is no more.
3. www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-express has the Visual Studio Community Edition which does not require a license.
4. IntelliJ IDEA is the IDE that JetBrains offers. Eclipse is a different Java IDE. NetBeans is a Java IDE too. One of the criticisms I've heard of the Java space is that there are too many ways to do things and this would an example of that.
5. There used to be the concept of shadowing sessions in PC LANs. An administrator could watch the desktop of particular user without them knowing about it. This didn't really work because the victim's computer ended up running with a bunch of lag giving away that something was wrong.
6. FoxPro (or perhaps Visual FoxPro) is some archaic language that is out of vogue. Its heyday was a dozen years ago. PHP survived Hurricane Katrina. This didn't.
7. Marissa Mayer, the once CEO of Yahoo! which got bought by Verizon "Can you hear me now?" Communications, should probably really be remembered for Google Maps (and maybe Gmail). Before Google Maps everyone used MapQuest. Remember them? They have been bought out by Aol (formerly America Online) just like Netscape and are about as relevant anymore as is Netscape. The entire time I used MapQuest they never innovated. They were just kinda stale and stagnant.
8. Carly Fiorina oversaw the buyout of Compaq when she was CEO of HP (Hewlett-Packard). Meh.
9. I'm not going to do the surveys for Chili's or FedEx Office. Stop torturing your clientele with this stuff guys.
10. Visual Studio Team Services has ways to share code and plan. You can manage scrum boards and Agile tools, etc.
11. TMZ supposedly stands for thirty-mile zone in a reference to a bunch of Hollywood movie studios that are within a thirty mile expanse of LA (Los Angeles, California). It is some sort of celebrity gossip news organization and the term TMZ has become it's own animal in a more general sense vaguely conveying gossip and sleaze and the like.
12. Hangfire looks to be a tool for "background processes" in .NET Core applications. Instead of having a windows service run what were referred to as cron jobs in FreeBSD gunk a dozen years ago (i.e. processes that get triggered at a specific time daily or weekly without a human pressing a button) or using Windows Task Scheduler you could, I suppose, use Hangfire now. I hear you may set it to ping an API endpoint X number of times before compensating... however it might... etc.
13. Adobe InDesign is software for desktop publishing.
14. Type "flip a coin" at Google to virtually flip a coin.
15. Trellian SubmitWolf is a tool to register your web sites with search engines!
16. The Go programming language of Google may be referred to as golang.
17. If you were to graph my confidence whenever I'm looking for a job it would make a U shape. I start out really confident and obviously I'm back to being confident again when I finally get a job offer, but there is a dip in the middle. It basically takes me about a month to start working again once the floor falls out from under me. I haven't been out of work for two full months since 2002.
18. I don't see any way to change the home page in Safari on my iPad. The true home page is just an empty browser pane. I just destroyed my history to make a sinister site that had been reappearing stop appearing when I opened the browser. The ability to do that is in the Settings for Safari. I'm using iOS 10.3.2 by the way.
19. QWERTY is name for the standard way keys are laid out on a keyboard. It's named for the first six letters that appear left to right. The layout will supposedly make the most common letters the easiest to reach quickly. The Q, the most obscure English letter, for example, is only reached by moving one's left pinky upwards.
20. "Elevated Mode" implies running Visual Studio 2017 as Administrator.
21. You may pick songs or even one song and then make a Pandora station around them on Pandora. In doing so Pandora's algorithm will crawl outwards to find different things to recommend and it will suggest things for you to thumb up to keep to hear again. If you never thumb up anything it will keep finding new things in an attempt to placate you. Don't let it placate you. Dangle the carrot of affirmation just out of grasp of the codependent and have a laugh at its expense.
22. webhookapp.com captures API requests for... I dunno... logging or the like I suspect.
23. Google Play is something akin to Pandora or Spotify.
24. cloudmailin.com turns inbound mail into POSTs to REST endpoints at your apps!
25. Full Stack Developer as a term kinda implies someone who can work on the frontend and backend both of an application and all grey areas in between, database up to CSS styles.
26. As of this month, Uber now has a way for you to tip through their app.
27. Amazon Prime is a paid subscription that makes stuff on Amazon cheaper. It is one of those things that is only worth it depending upon how much you use it to get your money's worth. Prime Day is a day for deals to be had for Amazon Prime account holders, more deals than usual that it.
28. In the JavaScript space... where there is no compiler safety... when you merge against someone else's rearrangement of an object that you need and end up with breaking changes... well, that is a rare example of a moment in which I actually crave the o of SoLID principles.
29. dist is going to be short for distributed or distribution - In an app I'm working on there is a CI build process to build JS from TypeScript to a "dist" folder making "dist" files.
30. nepotism is the practice of showing favoritism towards friends and loved ones and this materializes all the time in the tech sphere as people give jobs to people they know (In many ways this is not unfair if you think of the drought. There are is more work to be done in code than there are people who can write code so if you know someone who might be a fit for your open position they may not have any competition when interviewing. Are there even any other candidates to prefer your friend over? If not, are you even doing anything wrong by working every angle you can to fill a seat?)
31. If you declare a bunch of characters like [-_+.a-zA-Z0-9]+ to maybe match in RegEx I kinda think the hyphen needs to go first. I have put the underscore before the hyphen before and it wasn't pretty.
32. A skimmer attached to an ATM card reader at its "mouth" will pass on your credit card information while keeping it for itself.
33. LINE is some app for free calls/messages.
34. A punch card was a paper card full of holes that held instructions in programming up until the 1960s and vacuum tubes controlled the flow of electricity in 1940s and 1950s programming giving way to transistors around the time punch card fell out of fashion.
35. Jelly is some thing wherein a bunch of people from different jobs get together in a common space and work side by side in the name of pseudooffice social butterflydom.
36. Facebook now owns the Oculus.
37. As best as I can tell, Cisco WebEx meeting will not show my name to others if I give a name with a space in it. No, that's not true. I also didn't work with the name TOMJAESCHKE even though CANYOUSEEMYNAME works.
38. When database records contain bytes blobs for files and you "update" a file should you destroy the only record or just leave it orphaned, unassociated with the metadata at a different database table that loops it into the application?
39. the Wayback Machine lives at: http://web.archive.org
40. Maybe the word "please" should come out of validation error messages. These are really not options.
41. Microsoft Planner ...is a planning application.
42. Friendster was the thing like Myspace and Facebook before Myspace and Facebook.
43. Discord is an app for mobile chat, like for two individuals who are gaming together with headsets in different homes.
44. Twitch is now owned by Amazon.
45. DbUpdateException is an explicit type of exception thrown by an Entity Framework DbContext in C#.
46. You may use react.js in tandem with the new Angular! Redux (for JavaScript state management) and NGRX (for Angular-specific JavaScript state management) tie into that, I think.
47. Best Buy credit cards come with a ridiculous interest rate of like twenty-four or twenty-five percent, but this rate is shelved for a few months on items actually purchased at Best Buy itself! There is a long window of no interest in these cases. (like six months)
48. In a double-blind study both the testers and the tested do not know which drugs are real and which are sugar pills.
49. While in-ear headphones get jammed deep into the ear like ear plugs, earbuds, in contrast, utilize the tragus and and other protusions around that waxy hole into your head to stay in place.
50. The Iron Yard is a school that teaches people to code.
51. A pick list is a grocery list of items to pull from your inventory for order fulfillment.
52. A toaster component is going to give you popup messages.