Opera 9.20beta

By indeyets, on March 28th, 2007%

Opera 9.20 beta is released. You can get it at Opera Labs. I’ve been using it for several days now — really nice build.

Speed Dial is a killer-feature. I don’t need “Personal . . . → Read More: Opera 9.20beta

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fink + growl = love

By indeyets, on March 27th, 2007%

Did you know, that fink has growl-notifications plugin? It’s extremely convenient when you have some long-lasting build-processes

To make it work you need to:

install Growl
execute “fink install mac-growl-pm586″ in your terminal

image . . . → Read More: fink + growl = love

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Links to essays in “Best Software Writing I” by Joel Spolsky

By indeyets, on March 20th, 2007%

Not the newest thing in the world, but still useful.
Neil Kandalgaonkar published a list of Links to essays in “Best Software Writing I” by Joel Spolsky. As all the book consists of these articles and Joel’s comments it is a good reading for those who doesn’t think comments are that much valuable . . . → Read More: Links to essays in “Best Software Writing I” by Joel Spolsky

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prepared statements vs the query cache.

By indeyets, on March 11th, 2007%

Konstantin Osipov of MySQL mentioned in his blog, that there is patch submitted, which allows using Query Cache simulateously with Prepared Statements. I believe a lot of us were waiting for this quite a long time.
This means, that we would be able to use native mysql’s prepared statements without speed penalty and switch off the emulation

Patch . . . → Read More: prepared statements vs the query cache.

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System.out.print in PHP

By indeyets, on March 9th, 2007%

Ivo Jansch wrote the funniest php story I read recently: “System.out.print . . . → Read More: System.out.print in PHP

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yaml talk

By indeyets, on March 8th, 2007%

I gave a little talk at #php.thinktank today about YAML, php and my latest work in this regard. It happened a bit of spontaneously, so noone was invited. It was my first try, to make introduction to yaml for php prgrammers, and if there is more interest I will give another talk which will cover more . . . → Read More: yaml talk

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PHP Syck, part 2

By indeyets, on March 4th, 2007%

Yesterday I wrote about updating PHP’s YAML-parsing extension — Syck.

Some updates:

I believe, I fixed all memory leaks, it had (They were quite large, must tell you)
Why (Syck’s author) told me, that there will be new release in a month or so, which will include my patches

Until then, I encourage you to build php-extension using sources . . . → Read More: PHP Syck, part 2

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ionous — YAML

By indeyets, on March 4th, 2007%

ionous has several very interesting YAML-related . . . → Read More: ionous — YAML

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I love open-source

By indeyets, on March 4th, 2007%

I made several patches to PHP-extension part of syck library (YAML parser). From now on, it should:

compile successfully on MacOS-X
compile successfully in ZTS-enabled environment
not crash php-process anymore, on parse errors
throw SyckException on parse errors

You can checkout latest version from WhyTheLuckyStiff’s SVN . . . → Read More: I love open-source

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Mozilla will support http-only cookies

By indeyets, on March 2nd, 2007%

A patch for [Bug 178993] MSIE-extension: HttpOnly cookie attribute for cross-site scripting vulnerability prevention has just been committed to mozilla’s CVS. It is not yet approved for inclusion in 1.8-branch, but trunk will have it since now.

This will help to solve some of XSS-vulnerabilities related problems

update: the patch was removed from tree, for now, but looks . . . → Read More: Mozilla will support http-only cookies

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