How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases · Mathias Bynens
Bloody MySQL doesn't support full unicode by default. O_o 💩
"Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis"
Amusing paper talking about how biologists approach problems, or something.
Good little article about the pitfalls of using boolean values as parameters for a function. Not the first time I've seen this sort of thing (I'm sure I read a similar article years before, and a similar thing in a coding book even earlier).
Still good advice.
At least it's a little better in languages with keyword arguments.