fidzu : php

Somewhere out there a vanilla Ægir server is still quietly serving its Drupal sites, years after the person who set it up moved on. The aegir2boa toolset gives these classic estates a supported road into BOA: a read-only preflight which grades your box, an in-place Apache to Nginx flip proven on a scratch port before any handover, and a remote adoption which pauses, dumps, ships and registers each site while the old box becomes a small proxy where putting a site back is one file move. Every acting verb rehearses first, one clean rehearsal buys exactly one live run, and until DNS moves there is a drilled way back from every step; drilled meaning drilled: four full runs on throwaway boxes, an HTTPS estate with a composer platform, a mixed Drupal 6 and 7 estate, an Ubuntu source carried into Percona 8.4, then all of it again into both database generations, on the very tool bytes you would download. Free and open source, and it never asks for root database access on the box it is rescuing.

02 Sep 2026 8:09pm GMT

A weekend fix built for The DropTimes now supports sites its maintainer may never see, bringing the responsibilities of public module maintenance into focus.

02 Sep 2026 4:31pm GMT

The API Platform Conference, the international event dedicated to the API Platform framework and its ecosystem, will take place in two weeks in Lille, France, on September 17-18, 2026. Nearly 30 talks are scheduled, in both French and English, covering…

02 Sep 2026 2:30pm GMT

A perfectly completed ticket can still solve the wrong problem. Tom Hollevoet argues that better Drupal delivery begins with understanding the need behind the request.

02 Sep 2026 1:35pm GMT

A Symfony application is full of strings that mean something: route names, template paths, translation keys, service ids, bundle configuration keys. To PHP, they are strings like any others. Your CI pipeline verifies types with PHPStan or Psalm, style with…

31 Aug 2026 12:03pm GMT

Symfony 8.1.6 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…

30 Aug 2026 9:44pm GMT

Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.

Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!

On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.

01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT

1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:

1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.

2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.

3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?

4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...

5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!

I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!

01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT

Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...

01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT