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ZeroMQ + libevent in PHP 29 Sep 2011 | 06:10 pm
While waiting for a connection in Frankfurt I had a quick look at what it would take to make ZeroMQ and libevent co-exist in PHP and it was actually quite easy. Well, easy after Mikko Koppanen added a...
ASRock Sandy Bridge Motherboard notes 21 May 2011 | 08:06 pm
I have pieced together two Sandy Bridge machines. This entry contains my notes on the two machines. Mostly for myself to refer back to later, but it might come in handy for others along the way. Mach...
Writing an OAuth Provider Service 23 May 2010 | 04:50 pm
Last year I showed how to use pecl/oauth to write a Twitter OAuth Consumer. But what about writing the other end of that? What if you need to provide OAuth access to an API for your site? How do you d...
A quick look at XHP 10 Feb 2010 | 06:22 pm
Facebook released a new PHP extension today that supports inlining XML. This is a feature known as XML Literals in Visual Basic. Go read their description here: http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-...
HipHop PHP - Nifty Trick? 5 Feb 2010 | 07:50 am
In a response to a question from ReadWriteWeb, among other things, I wrote: My main worry here is that people think this is some kind of magic bullet that will solve their site performance problems. ...
SQLi Detection - Duh Moment 11 Jan 2010 | 03:44 pm
Not sure why it took me so long to figure out what I am sure is obvious to most other people who have thought about this, but it never clicked for me how to get anywhere near useful SQL Injection dete...
Playing with Gearman 25 Sep 2009 | 09:57 am
This was written in September 2009 when the current version of Gearman was 0.9. Thanks to Eric Day for answering my dumb questions along the way. To get started, install Gearman. I am on Debian, so t...
Using pecl/oauth to post to Twitter 28 Apr 2009 | 10:20 am
I have seen a lot of questions about OAuth and specifically how to do OAuth from PHP. We have a new pecl oauth extension written by John Jawed which does a really good job simplifying OAuth. I added ...
Select * from World 20 Mar 2009 | 09:06 am
I have been having a lot of fun with two Yahoo! technologies that have been evolving quickly. YQL and GeoPlanet. The first, YQL, puts an SQL-like interface on top of all the data on the Internet. And ...
SearchMonkey 9 May 2008 | 09:50 am
One of the things I have been playing with lately is Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey project. It appeals to me on many different levels. The geeky name is a play on GreaseMonkey. But instead of writing plugins ...
