around google reader
Update 2006-11-13: Google reader just got better.
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blog Closed!
calin view of the web development world
2006/3/28
2006/3/23
PEAR affectedRows() problem
In case you also use PEAR::DB and share my taste in writing explicit multiple line queries like this:
2006/3/16
so why are we stuck with php4 and the like?
well, let's see:
mail support@myhost.com
> can you please upgrade my webserver's PHP from 4.x to 5.1.2?
you have php5 cgi mode already but for the apache module it costs a 50$ installation fee
> can you please upgrade mySQL from 4 to 5?
sure, 50$ installation fee
> I have ruby, but can I please have ruby on rails?
sure, but you need:
fastCGI: 50$
ror package: 50$
.. you get the picture. I'm talking about a top quality hosting provider here, so it's no big surprize that php5 is stuck in some 6% market. I'm just the average php developer that wants to try the latest Zend Framework and code igniter and others. So does it make sense to talk about php6?
mail support@myhost.com
> can you please upgrade my webserver's PHP from 4.x to 5.1.2?
you have php5 cgi mode already but for the apache module it costs a 50$ installation fee
> can you please upgrade mySQL from 4 to 5?
sure, 50$ installation fee
> I have ruby, but can I please have ruby on rails?
sure, but you need:
fastCGI: 50$
ror package: 50$
.. you get the picture. I'm talking about a top quality hosting provider here, so it's no big surprize that php5 is stuck in some 6% market. I'm just the average php developer that wants to try the latest Zend Framework and code igniter and others. So does it make sense to talk about php6?
blog statistics with Performancing
A fresh new tool: Performancing Metrics
from performancing.com allows any blog owner to track visitor patterns
and seems to be specially tailored towards blogs. The interface is very
clean and seems to be far more mature than all the web 2.0 rounded
corners invasion we saw lately. It was time maybe that focus came back
to content from presentation. There's also a very useful Firefox
extension.
Compared to the sophisticated google analytics, it's far more simpler to install; runs very fast and they seem to have no performance problems in a 24hour 2500++ blogs growth.
Compared to the sophisticated google analytics, it's far more simpler to install; runs very fast and they seem to have no performance problems in a 24hour 2500++ blogs growth.
2006/3/14
vast.com - online classifieds
Via TechCrunch, here's the most recent blog buzz: Vast.com just launched; another online experiment in the online classifieds area. With an impressive count of 3 billion indexed pages, and an open-minded API right from the start, they seem to be heading agressivelly up. They feature car ads, jobs and personal profiles from the crawled data, and spider blogs as well.
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2006/3/10
maintenance page
What's such a big deal in setting up an automatic page refresh on
maintenance pages? Del.icio.us is down right now for planned
maintenance:
Delicious is down for planned maintenance.....
Forget fancy js; they could do it even via the ugly meta tag refresh. Once their website would be up, the page would get loaded on user side.2006/3/6
zend framework
The new PHP Zend Framework is out (v0.1.1). There's really lot of classes inside to digest; many to-be-standardized algorhitms inside; all in all an interesting read.
However, unless all these PHP classes get precompiled into PHP, it's
hard to see a reason to include 881kb (~/library/*) of on-the-fly
compiled PHP code into every php app. The feed parser, pdf generator
and search demos look great though. The ActiveRecord implementation;
the Zend_db_DataObject sounds very promising; I'll have a more indepth look over the next weeks.2006/3/3
upgrading to mysql 5 - FLOAT issue
This is just a small note, to cover FLOAT issues when upgrading from
MySQL version 4.0 to 5.0. In MySQL 4.0, the float type is by default 10
digits long, 4 after the decimal point. A create table statement would
look like this:
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around php usage worldwide
This isn't about debating the $subject, but simple rhetoric. As a search engines relevance check, Google's answer is in lala-land; same is Yahoo's. Both engines seem to be fooled by the presence of "php" in search result URLs. The only search engine that appears to get it is MSN.
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2006/3/1
ether: google answers meets google's click to talk
Here's the newest WEB 2.0 toy spreading fast through the blogosphere: Ether.com.
It offers an easy way to phone-connect experts in any domain to people
requesting advices. Ether.com handles a_party billing in advance, hides
both phone numbers so they stay in control, makes the IVR calls to
connect the parties at given times and more.
Overall an interesting idea to watch over; if they survive the obvious
spam and fraud attacks they will encounter. They seem to have a massive
background architecture behind the simplicity of their idea; which is
great news. So besides the hype-inflated huge fonts and the
Apple-freaks ruby on rails bubble-type of presentation they seems to really carry a business model around.
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php rants, anti-rants and beyond
In case you missed the hype, there have been some rants on php lately; ignited by Tim Bray, continued by many others (Paul Goscicki++). In the background of these attacks seem to be the recent fast ascension of Ruby on Rails technology, which some say is not that bad (here's a hot job post with autoscout24.de; german leader in online car classifieds).
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