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MySQL oddities in legacy project

I recently inherited a project.  My primary goal is to make it portable to the extent that it can run on another webserver setup.  This is a PHP4/LAMP system, but the people I’m getting it from didn’t...

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Sun buys MySQL and other interesting tidbits

Sun is acquiring MySQL OK, well, I thought I’d be able to find a few more interesting tidbits, but these two are interesting enough to me for a Wednesday morning.  Obviously the Sun/MySQL thing is big...

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SQL Server driver for PHP5

For anyone that has struggled with using PHP and MSSQL over the years, this one may come as some pleasant news (if you’re still in that situation).  Microsoft has put out a preview of “SQL Server 2005...

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Why I think PDO sucks

Every so often I try to use PDO under PHP5, and every time I run in to basic functionality problems with no ability to find out what’s going on under the hood.  A recent example: $dbh = new...

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New jobs board at jobs.webdevradio.com

I’ve been meaning to do this some time, and finally found the time to do it – jobs.webdevradio.com is up and functional (though quite empty at this point!) One of the things I mentioned on my podcast...

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WebDevRadio podcast series – Interview with Brian Moon on scaling LAMP

This is the last in my MySQL conference series.  Brian Moon, author of Phorum and Sr Developer at Dealnews.com, sat down and gave a recap of his two presentations.  We have here nearly a full hour of...

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Responsibility, liability and cloud computing

I was browsing High Scalability this morning and came across this article which got me to thinking about something I’ve not seen discussed yet when talking about ‘cloud computing’ in all its forms:...

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Oracle buying Sun – what does this mean for MySQL?

Just woke up this morning to news that Oracle is buying Sun.  After cursing myself for not having bought some JAVA last week when it was in the 6 range (pre-market now at 9.10), I started thinking...

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New PDF database magazine

No, it’s not from me or WebDevPub, but it looks good all the same.  It’s actually a continuation of the earlier MySQL Magazine, but with a larger focus, and is now a pay-for PDF, similar to JSMag and...

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a dumb programming mistake

I had a couple of dumb development mistakes come and bite me in the butt this week, and I thought I’d share them here – well, at least one for now. Without going in to the type of data too much here –...

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