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 …
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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. …
Adding GD PHP support to Fedora Core 5 (FC5)
For some reason I thought GD was installed by default onto the DFL production servers… and that PHP was configured accordingly. I was wrong. But lo and behold I found a very simple upgrade path. % yum install gd-devel % yum install php-gd restart apache: % /sbin/service httpd restart You’re golden.
Pre-QA isn’t good for interviews
I’m just going to throw this out there… if you have a piece of software, site, etc that isn’t quite at the QA stages, no matter how rockin’ in might be, you might want to consider holding off on showing it to others until you know the demo is going to work. I think I’m …
Anchor tags and Safari
I found an interesting “bug” in Apple’s Safari today while updating a page on Flood’s deprecating website (new version coming up in September). First of all, for the record, nobody on the team designed the template currently in-use (Aug, 2006). I just needed to put an anchor near the end of the page… pretty standard …
Wireless mesh networks in Africa
I’ve never been to Africa before, but I have many friends who have. I know that their internet access there (in Malawi, at least) could often be a lot better. The problem most likely arises from the lack of a solid data infrastructure. There are DSL solutions, but from what I’ve read they can be …
Fedora FC5 black screen install woes – FIX
Here’s a quick post for those having difficulties installing Fedora Core 5 (FC5) on systems with ATI cards. Our new 80 node cluster install at the DFL is just about finished. I get two Dell PowerEdge 1425s all to myself for web stuffs. First order of business: ditch RedHat Enterprise Linux. I need cutting-edge software. …
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