Andrew Koebbe

Just another developer with a blog.

There has been a recent change to the way Shawnee Mission School District streams its board meetings. While it may not be very apparent to someone watching for the first time, if you compare May's recording to June's you can certainly tell the difference.

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Recently Mandrill (MailChimp) really let the developer community down by announcing the demise of their stand-alone transactional email service, Mandrill. This left me and many other developers with a decision to either find something new or pay a ridiculously high monthly fee to keep our apps' small amount of email flowing. Here's the breakdown of the change and why I'm switching to Sendgrid.

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Recently I was working on setting up a new local development environment at work and stumbled across a MySQL error when importing legacy data in to the remake of an old app. This error lead me to a scary revelation about the defaults of MySQL version 5.6 and earlier.

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I was having an issue with connecting to the ReadyNAS web admin. When I logged in I just got the loading bar. Eventually it timed out and gave me a few options to retry or check RAIDar, etc.

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Normally when I buy beeswax I seem to find it in block form or in small medallions, but most of the recipes I find online use pastilles (tiny beads) which are listed in volume measurements. So I often ended up scratching my head trying to figure out how much I need to chop off the block to get the e...

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