Historical evolution of analytics

The first occurrences of analysis of statistics are found from the 19th century by Frederick Winslow Taylor who performed time management exercises. Even Henry Ford took some interest into the assembly lines and how performant they were. The breakthrough came in the 1970s when Edgar F. Codd created relational databases which held mostly structured data and allowed users for retrieve the data by writing SQL. These kind of databases and SQL are still very much in use even today.

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How to exclude specs or test files from webpack build in TS project

If you have your spec files in your typescript project but not the actual test runner you might be getting some weird errors. This might happen if you have in a monorepo environment or some similar situation.

This error is actually good one because usually you shouldn’t have tests within your build.

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Disable locale passing on ssh connection

You might have seen these super annoying error messages on a new Linux system:

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How to use PHP and Amazon API to fetch product information

So you have a list of ASINs for which you’d like to get more information? That can be easily done with Amazon API. It’s a great tool to use when you already know which ASINs (products) you want to work with. In this post I assume you want to fetch product information for multiple items and have the list of ASINs ready in a text file, separated by a new line. Continue reading How to use PHP and Amazon API to fetch product information