fidzu : PHP

23 Jul 2008 5:30pm GMT

It's weird how worlds intersect. Here is some lobbycon dialog: "I don't know, but if you plot the points, there aren't many intersections. I've noticed it on my Facebook: The Open Source world has different geeks, and then the Web 2.0 world is mixed up. Priorities are f'd-people like X, who are big in the Web [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ogres Select Consumption Over Networking (OSCON)", url: "http://terrychay.com/blog/article/ogres-select-consumption-over-networking-oscon.shtml" });

22 Jul 2008 11:05pm GMT

While the MySQL 5.1 feature list looks quite tasty to me, the MySQL 5 feature list has not really won me over. Aside from the fact that most new MYSQL 5 features have been quite bug plagued (though this is now mostly resolved side from the performance issues with VIEW's and INFORMATION_SCHEMA). So Arjen is doing some courses on MySQL 5 features, which got me thinking which are the features I regularly use? Uhm .. I think there is only one, which are VIEW's. Actually I always end up using them for the same thing: Computing a status field that changes given the CURRENT_DATE. I tend to try and avoid cron jobs for these tasks whenever I can. Of course it would be more performant to update the status once, but replying on the status update cron job to actually work right at the expected time is tricky. Maybe with the event scheduler in 5.1 I will consider changing this VIEW use case.

22 Jul 2008 8:50pm GMT

Fire up the download clients, Zend Framework 1.6 RC 1 is now available. There's nothing better than fresh code!

22 Jul 2008 6:09pm GMT

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22 Jul 2008 3:04pm GMT

I can't be at OSCON this year. But my colleague Rob is and he just posted a usability post about, of all things, the Double Tree hotel where I am sure a lot of you are staying. Great stuff.

22 Jul 2008 2:52pm GMT

I currently find myself with a client who owes a substantial amount of money (over $8000) and I'm at a bit of a loss over how to approach collecting on this debt. Emails and phone calls have not worked so far. This was billed over two invoices, and the first invoice is now five weeks [...]

22 Jul 2008 12:31am GMT

I find myself once again in Portland, OR at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. This year, I'm giving a talk on memcached. The talk is on the PHP track, but the concepts can apply in any of the other languages represented at OSCON, so if you're interested in memcached and how to use it, stop [...]

21 Jul 2008 11:50pm GMT

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