http://blog.breuls.org Discoveries of a Dutch Developer Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:16:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Within PHP, the current Big Thing, in a way, is namespaces. However: it's brand new and not every PHP developer knows how, if at all, to use then. Good thing there's tutorials about that. Sitepoint has one in three parts: 1, 2, 3. http://blog.breuls.org/2009/07/16/namespaces-in-php/ Zend Developer Zone: "Drizzle is a new, lightweight fork of MySQL specifically designed for cloud applications. Although Drizzle is still under development, it's attracting a lot of attention from developers around the world. This article introduces you to Drizzle and shows you how to use the Drizzle PHP extension to ... http://blog.breuls.org/2009/07/12/drizzle-instead-of-mysql/ I reset the time on our mailserver, because NTP wasn't working (or at all running, I guess). Immediately my mail client started complaining about the connection. The above error message was the cause. It's both funny and explanatory. I like it. http://blog.breuls.org/2009/05/09/suicidal-mailserver/ To increase performance at the site I work for, we started separating static webfiles from dynamic pages using a separate hostname and web server for static files a while ago. For this, we placed almost all of the images, style sheets and Javascript files on a separate server and installed ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/12/18/using-lighttpd-for-exceptional-performance/ Ivan Zoratti: "The content can satisfy the appetite of a technical audience and of more business-oriented IT managers at the same time. We will have sessions on performance, on scalability solutions and on Proxy, with hands-on the servers, difference parameters and tools. IT managers will probably find interesting a renewed ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/10/16/mysql-conference/ And this is why: You're a Doer. You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money. You like coding at a Low level. You're from the old school ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/10/04/my-programmer-personality-type-is-dlsc/ It's one of those facts that you learn once and then always remember: if you want your URL's to be properly indexed: don't stuff them with querystring-data. Make them nice, like they're static URL's. That's what I always knew. Like riding a bike, you never forget it. But Google says ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/09/25/google-does-dynamic/ When I started out PHP'ing, I bought a little PHP book called 'PHP pocket reference'. It was one of those small O'Reilly books and it was written by Rasmus Lerdorf himself. I still have it, although of course I don't use it anymore. The book focused on PHP3, although PHP4 was ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/08/08/farewell-to-php4/ » Neat tricks for the MySQL command-line pager » Why do browsers still not have file upload progress meters? » How Facebook serves pictures » Migrating OOP Libraries and Frameworks to PHP 5.3 » Desktop Image Uploaders Using Adobe AIR and JavaScript http://blog.breuls.org/2008/07/09/links-for-this-week-2/ It's always fun to compare tools. Who works with what and especially, why? Following the example of Flickr and some others, let me list my tools, see if you match: Working: Main machine: MacBook Pro. I have an Ubuntu PC, but that's just 'extra'. I do everything on my Mac, from working ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/07/02/tools-of-the-trade/