It was 6 years ago when I was last looking for a change after being a freelancer for a very long time. The idea was simple. I was tired of being the accountant, salesperson, consultant, developer, collections, sysadmin, and more. As a freelance “developer” I had to be all these things to support my family and live in a manner I was accustomed. But I was growing tired of it all, and wanted to have a little more fun by doing the parts I enjoyed most…consulting.
A good friend had been working at a well-known company for about a year and was very happy doing it. He also had grown tired of being a freelance developer, and a job at the company was his answer. So, when I saw an open consulting position on their website, I applied for it.
About a week later I received a call, then went through the typical round of interviews and questions. I was hired!
It was an exciting time, filled with learning new systems, people, and experiences. I was suddenly thrust into meetings with very large companies, and large teams of developers, who needed my help. There were new problems to solve on a weekly basis, and with each problem came new challenges. The number of things I learned during my six years of consulting at the company was mind-blowing, and with each day I discovered there was more and more I didn’t know. I basically went from knowing a bunch of things to village idiot overnight when I was hired.
“I went from knowing a bunch of things to village idiot overnight when I was hired.”
As I transitioned from one customer to another, it also led to traveling quite a bit. I spent half of each year away from home as I went onsite to meet new teams, learn network and application infrastructures, and build relationships with hundreds of people.
I continued to learn a great deal, and with each engagement, I spent less time on search engines and could draw from my own knowledge more often. (Of course, there was still a bunch of searching, but it was less. I’m still the village idiot learning daily.)
As a user group organizer, and speaker, I’ve always enjoyed teaching and sharing, and it was wonderful that my employer encouraged this activity. So I tended to share my knowledge with anyone who would listen, as I began speaking at conferences, user groups, and online from blog posts, podcasts, and videos, as well as through code via online source code repositories.
Through the process, I also did a fair amount of evangelism around products, libraries, and frameworks I believed in and witnessed some real growth from these efforts which drove me to do more.
However, as times change and acquisitions happen, so do the directions companies take. For good, or bad, companies are forced to make decisions and make changes to help them move forward and grow. I’ve witnessed and lived through some events these past couple years that have left me feeling dissatisfied and a little disconnected from the things I’ve come to hold dear.
This doesn’t mean the company is bad. It simply means our paths have diverged for the time being. Therefore, I will be leaving my current employer, as it is time once again for a change.
ds 1.2.9
Fix segfault when iterating an implicit instance of Stack, Queue or PriorityQueue.
datadog_trace 0.23.0
**NOTE: We changed the way the service name can be configured. Now you must use `DD_SERVICE_NAME` instead of `DD_TRACE_APP_NAME` for consistency with other tracers. Usage of `DD_TRACE_APP_NAME` is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.**
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Support for Lumen 5.2+ #416
Tracing support from the CLI SAPI #422
Support for Laravel Artisan #422
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Now the way to configure service name is through DD_SERVICE_NAME instead of DD_TRACE_APP_NAME #432
parallel 0.9.0
- Channels: bi-directional communication between tasks and runtimes
- Improvements to copying making it vastly more efficient
- Improvements to runtime stack, making it more efficient
- Tasks may use lexical scope
- Events - an experimental, quite primitive event loop for reading/writing sets of channels and futures
- Support for rethrowing exceptions uncaught in tasks
- Simplified Runtime constructor
- Remove Future::select (in favour of the superior events interface)
- Task cancellation
- Closure support
- Drop support for PHP 7.1
datadog_trace 0.22.0
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- Tracer limited mode where spans are not created to preserve resources #417
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Error when a subclassed integration returns an object that cannot be cast as a string #423
How The Global Garcinia Cambogia Extract Market Will Behave?
A research report on “Global Garcinia Cambogia Extract Market 2019 Industry Research Report” is being published by researchunt.com. This is a key document as far as the clients and industries are concerned to not only understand the Global competitive market status that exists currently but also what future holds for it in the upcoming period, i.e., between 2018 and 2025. It has taken the previous market status of 2013 – 2018 to project the future status. The report has categorized in terms of region, type, key industries, and application.
Major Geographical Regions
The study report on Global Garcinia Cambogia Extract Market 2018 would cover every big geographical, as well as, sub-regions throughout the world. The report has focused on market size, value, product sales and opportunities for growth in these regions. The market study has analyzed the competitive trend apart from offering valuable insights to clients and industries. These data will undoubtedly help them to plan their strategy so that they could not only expand but also penetrate into a market.
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The researchers have analyzed the competitive advantages of those involved in the industries or in the Garcinia Cambogia Extract industry. While historical years were taken as 2013 – 2017, the base year for the study was 2017. Similarly, the report has given its projection for the year 2018 apart from the outlook for years 2018 – 2025.
Key Players and Type
Like any other research material, the report has covered key geographical regions such as Europe, Japan, United States, India, Southeast Asia and Europe. Researchers have given their opinion or insights of value, product sales, and industry share besides availability opportunities to expand in those regions. As far as the sub-regions, North America, Canada, Medico, Australia, Asia-Pacific, India, South Korea, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Rest of Asia-Pacific, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Rest of Europe, Russia, Central South America, Middle East Africa are included.
Major players in the report included are :
Xi’an Lyphar Biotech
Shaanxi Fuheng (FH) Biotechnology
Shaanxi Guanjie Technology
Wuhan Vanz Pharm
Hunan Kanerga Pharmaceutical Sales
TWO BLUE DIAMONDS
MARUTI FUTURISTIC PHARMA
KINAL GLOBAL CARE
NUTRA GRACE
Types covered in the Garcinia Cambogia Extract industry are :
0.5
0.6
Other
Applications covered in the report are :
Food Industry
Pharmaceuticals Industry
Other
Geographical Scope of this report includes :
North America
United States
Canada
Mexico
Asia-Pacific
China
India
Japan
South Korea
Australia
Indonesia
Malaysia
Philippines
Thailand
Vietnam
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Rest of Europe
Central South America
Brazil
Rest of South America
Middle East Africa
GCC Countries
Turkey
Egypt
South Africa
Rest of Middle East Africa
Report Aims
The objective of the researchers is to find out sales, value, and status of the Garcinia Cambogia Extract industry at the international levels. While the status covers the years of 2013 – 17, the forecast is for the period 2018 – 25 that will enable market players to not only plan but also execute strategies based on the market needs.
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The study wanted to focus on key manufacturers, competitive landscape, and SWOT analysis for Garcinia Cambogia Extract industry. Apart from looking into the geographical regions, the report concentrated on key trends and segments that are either driving or preventing the growth of the industry. Researchers have also focused on individual growth trend besides their contribution to the overall market.
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A recent study evaluated the relationship between intake of vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 and risk of hip fracture among postmenopausal women. According to the findings, a higher than recommended intake of combined vitamins B6 and B12 could increase the likelihood of sustaining a hip fracture.
Previous research has found that more than half of the United States population uses some kind of dietary supplement (of note, evidence has tied supplements including Herbalife, Hydroxycut, and garcinia cambogia to increased risk of liver failure). Further, the study authors noted, “Both insufficient and excess intakes of a nutrient may be harmful. According to randomized clinical trials (RCTs), high-dose vitamin supplementation may lead to unexpected adverse effects.”
Researchers used data from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) to conduct their study. NHS data for the current study went back to June 1984. The women filled out a survey via mail pertaining to their medical history, lifestyle, and disease risk factors; follow-up surveys were conducted every two years. The women were followed through May 2014; final analysis included responses from 75,864 postmenopausal women. After excluding 117 fractures related to cancer or traumatic events, 2,304 hip fractures were recorded.
Characteristics of Fracture Patients
Among the 2,304 hip fractures, median age at the time of fracture was 75.8 years, and mean body mass index (BMI) was 24.3 kg/m2. The median cumulative average intake of total vitamin B6 was 3.6 mg/d, and vitamin B12 was 12.1 μg/d. The reference group for vitamin B6 analysis was those with a daily intake 2 mg/d, and for vitamin B12 was 5 μg/d.
BMI did not significantly differ across high and low vitamin intake groups. However, in both vitamins B6 and B12 groups, the higher intake cohorts had increased levels of physical activity and lower rates of smoking. Women with higher intakes of vitamins B6 and B12 also had higher intakes of other micronutrients, and a lower consumption of caffeine and alcohol. The low vitamin B12 intake group had lower rates of functional limitations, chronic diseases, and medication use; middle and high intakes had similar rates. This association was weaker in the vitamin B6 groups.
The women were followed for a mean 20.9 years. After adjusting for covariates, compared to the reference group, the highest vitamin B6 overall intake (diet and supplements) group had a relative risk (RR) for hip fracture of 1.29 (95% CI, 1.04-1.59; P = .06 for linear trend). When comparing groups based on vitamin B6 intake from supplements only, the highest intake group’s RR was 1.41 (95% CI, 1.10-1.80; P = .09 for linear trend).
“For total vitamin B12, intakes at least 30 μg/d were associated with a nonsignificant increased risk of hip fracture compared with intakes less than 5 μg/d (RR, 1.25; 95% CI, 0.98-1.58), and risk increased linearly with increasing intake (RR, 1.01; 95% CI, 1.00-1.03 per 10-μg/d increase in total intake; P for linear trend = .02),” the researchers observed.
An increased intake of both vitamins was significantly associated with increased hip fracture risk compared to a reference category of a low intake of both vitamins (RR, 1.47; 95% CI, 1.15-1.89). most women did not have a high intake of one and a low intake of the other. Women with a medium intake for both vitamins did not have a significantly greater risk for hip fracture (RR, 1.18; 95% CI, 0.98-1.42).
For women aged 19 to 50 years old, the National Institutes for Health (NIH)’s recommended daily allowance (RDA) for vitamin B6 is 1.3 mg; for women aged older than 50 years, NIH recommends a 1.5 mg dose. The NIH’s vitamin B12 recommendation is 2.4 μg for women aged 14 years and older.
“The RDAs are established to meet the nutritional requirements of almost the entire population. Despite that, use of high-dose vitamin supplementation far exceeding the RDAs is common, often without any definite indication and in the absence of clear evidence of benefit,” the study authors observed. They suggested that caution be applied when taking supplements, “because adverse events can occur.”
Making mistakes is part of the human experience. They go together like pizza and breadsticks. But the beauty of a mistake is that you have a chance to learn from it.
Still, the reality is that we usually don’t learn until that mistake properly blows up in our face. Even then, that one false move can come back to haunt us time and again. Once that happens, it can seem impossible to shake yourself from the clutches of such horror.
Perhaps the best (and only) defense is to avoid making that mistake in the first place. So, before you go about your daily business, stop and read our list of business and design-related actions that can come back to bite you in the future. It may just save you from some future headaches!
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Not every project or client is going to be the right one for you. And it seems like, quite often, you can spot a bad one right from the beginning.
Yet one of the most difficult things to learn in business is to trust your own instincts. Other factors, such as the need for money and to build out our portfolios get in the way and cloud our decision making.
Signing up to work on a project that looks like a disaster-in-waiting is something that can have detrimental effects to your business and health. Whether it’s because of the work itself, an untenable client, or both, it’s a bad situation. And unfortunately, there’s not often a graceful way to get out.
Therefore, it pays to think long and hard before agreeing to something you’re uncomfortable with. If you can’t see yourself cozying up to the project, it’s okay to say “no”.
Failing to Comment Code or Document Changes
Have you ever written a piece of code and said to yourself, “I’ll remember it”? Even if you are blessed with a sharp memory, there is still a good chance that at least something will slip your mind. That makes future maintenance for you (or the next developer) much more difficult.
The same can be said for other changes, as well. For instance, maybe you need to temporarily remove a design element from a template or change some CSS. Not taking the time to document what you’ve done will typically come back to haunt you. You could waste precious time searching around for a past change or attempting to figure out that code you wrote a few years ago.
Over time, everything changes and there’s even a chance it could break. When that time comes, wouldn’t it be nice to have a detailed explanation of how things work? Do yourself a big favor and start documenting items large and small. Your future self with appreciate it!
Relying on the Unreliable
Web designers tend to put our faith in a lot of third-party products – everything from JavaScript libraries to WordPress plugins. On the surface, there’s nothing wrong with this. Our job these days is to piece together websites from many disparate parts. This is just how things work…until they stop working.
Truth be told, virtually any outside piece of code we implement can become a weak link in the chain. However, it’s up to us to try and mitigate that risk as much as possible. How do we do this? By taking the time to research the products we use.
While no one is clairvoyant enough to know what’s going to happen, you can tell the difference between products that are well-maintained and those that aren’t.
Sometimes, we pick something simply because everyone else is buzzing about it – doing so without looking at factors like compatibility and release history. The danger in this is that, by the time we find out how poor the product is, something has already gone wrong.
So, before jumping on that bandwagon, do your homework. Look at support forums and changelogs. Test things out for potential weaknesses. A little extra effort up front can save you from having to remove that previously-hot item from every site you manage.
Not Standing up for Yourself
As the old saying goes, give people an inch and they’ll take a mile (or the metric system equivalent). It’s bad enough when you’re the nice person who lets a bunch of people go ahead of you at the coffee shop. But when you give in to a client, well, that’s a punishment you could relive over and over.
Acts such as doing work for them after hours or providing price breaks can boomerang on you. Respond to their message on a Saturday night, and some will take it to mean that it’s okay to reach you at that time. Charge way less than you normally would and they’ll expect that will always be the case.
It’s not all the client’s fault. People tend to base their behavior on the reaction of others. In other words, if you let them do it – they probably will take advantage and not think a thing about it.
Sometimes we have to tell ourselves that it’s good to hold the line on these types of things. That is, unless you want clients to routinely interrupt your dinner/binge-watching sessions.
The Key to Avoiding Ghosts
Much like a game of PAC-MAN, a web designer needs to find a way to outrun those ghosts looking to haunt us. Strategically, just like in the classic video game, doing this requires making moves with the future in mind.
When you think about it, so many future problems can be prevented by avoiding lazy practices. Things like commenting code, researching software or even weighing the potential consequences of a project could save us from a whole lot of issues.
The good news is that each item mentioned here can be avoided, or at least mitigated to a certain degree. Learning from mistakes is great, but preventing them is even better.
Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by a panel of speakers from Longhorn PHP to discuss the conference, PHP internals, and questions from the attendees.