I just got the MySQL AB newsletter in my inbox this evening and there’s an interesting tool they introduce that will convert existing PHP scripts that use the standard (“old”) mysql extension to use the new mysqli. “i” stands for “improved” – the new extension is faster and can take advantage of the new MySQL …
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Interview questions… for a PHP job
Last week I went through one and a half hellish days of interviewing candidates for my replacement – one position for PHP and another for the research coordinating. Larry and I talked to over a dozen people. It wasn’t bad, per-se, but I wouldn’t do so many all at once again. It really made me …
DFL major release!
Lots of news over here at the Digital Fish Library. We just moved the production, qa, and dev staging sites to our new servers over the weekend, and at the same time made some major updates public that will surely allow the website to grow with few pains over the next several months. 1) Family …
SEO your URL
If you’re looking for some help on learning mod_rewrite, this post isn’t for you. sorry. Instead, I’m going to show you a neat little trick that will make sure you always have one the www in front of your domain name. Why is it important? Potentially for your stats package, definitely for search engine ranking …
Changing scenery… Downtown!
It was a bitter sweet week this week. I took a job with a company in downtown (San Diego), thus marking my remaining two weeks at UCSD. Sweet, of course, because I’m finally at the level where my skills are (very) marketable. Bitter? I’ve been in research for over four years now – under Dr. …