January Queso

1. Powerless middle managers, they will impose a new rule when something goes wrong. How else can they reassure their higher-ups that nothing will go wrong again? But, all the rules stifle developers, making work no fun.
2. People had pagers in the mid-1990s before cell phones were common.
3. A key fob is something you swipe at a door to be allowed access in. It's a physical trinket.
4. There is a fifty dollar fee for transferring Bitcoin from one party to another.
5. Verizon JetPack is a type of AirCard and AirCards are little portable devices that all you to make a HotSpot with a cell phone signal, just as you can with the iPhone 4S and better, only this is independent of your phone and you can thus both talk on the phone and use this other device to browse the internet.
6. Blockfolio is a portfolio for cryptocurrency stuff. Daedalus is a cryptocurrency wallet.
7. LIS is laboratory information system and I guess HIS is hospital information system too. These are communication protocols. ASTM is an example as is HL7 (Health Level 7) and PACS, RIS, CIS, and DICOM too.
8. Ripple is another cryptocurrency.
9. There are seventy trillion US dollars in the world economy (that is a value across all diversified currencies) and one percent of it is now in cryptocurrency.
10. FileSaver.js is an npm packet with some magic to help with naming downloaded files and other tricks to do with downloading files.
11. You have access to kernel memory for anything within the immediate process exposed in Intel processors! You may dig it out with JavaScript from a site open in a tab in Google Chrome for example. Encrypted passwords had to be in plain text at one point.
12. testdriven.net allows you to run tests in Visual Studio and I think I recall that one performance benefits is that it uses its own process and thus does not force you to recompile a project into a .dll when nothing changed in the project and, yes, there is a performance gain in terms of speediness to be had therein.
13. Minder is the Muslim Tinder!
14. There is much to debate in autoincrementing numeric ids versus GUIDs as database identities for records, and the debate is much more interesting than spaces versus tabs for indenting or if an open curly brace should be on the same line as the thing it chases. One advantage of GUIDs is that you may copy records from one environment into another without having to redo the keys ever. Another is of security. It is a lot harder to guess at GUIDs than it is at numbers. A problem is that GUIDs are hard to read and remember. Ayende Rahien hates reading GUIDs aloud over the telephone to others as it is tough. Supposedly when you add while autoincrementing you are putting a record at the end of table, but not necessarily so with GUIDs and that can cause performance heartache. In adhering to the concept presented with ORMs, one would want to be able to define the record ID outside of the database and just put it in without thinking about getting a number for the record back. If it is even possible to use an autoincrementing numeric id with NHibernate I have not seen it yet myself. That is not how NHibernate works.
15. Ballmer's Peak as a concept suggests there is a perfect amount of drunkenness that one may have as a state for writing code. In this model one is better at coding at Ballmer's Peak than one is if one is sober. However, if you are not that intoxicated yet or more intoxicated then, yes, it is worse for you to write code in that state than if you were sober. This is named for Steve Ballmer, a former CEO of Microsoft.
16. Visual Paradigm is a let's-make-some-UML tool.
17. If you do undo back far enough with WebStorm 2017.1 and you bridge the point that you reverted from source control and it will ask you if you want to "Undo Reload From Disk" which is a lifesaver!
18. Patrick Lioi's Fixie is another testing framework for C#.
19. Pidgin is a messaging client.
20. The footprint of an .mdf will only grow until you explicitly "shrink" it and even if you delete all of the rows out of all of the tables the file size of an .mdf will not drop downwards until shrunk.
21. The tide pod challenge is a make-a-YouTube-video-of-yourself-doing-something-stupid not unlike Neknominate or for that matter the ice bucket challenge (that killed someone too).
22. Back in the 1990s, I recall one could put an .ini file by an .exe file to speak settings to the .exe file. The .ini file would be something you could just edit in Notepad.
23. AutoSys Job Scheduler is for running batch jobs.
24. Macromedia Authorware was something akin to Macromedia Director. Wikipedia suggests some flowcharting capabilities set it apart from Director. Adobe owns both things now.
25. Parkmobile is some sort of mobile app to allow you to pay for your parking with an account bound to one of your credit cards.