Syck 0.9.2

I’ve just released syck for php 0.9.2 (a parser and emitter of YAML documents. If you don’t know anything about YAML and why it is good: check my previous posts on the subject). A lot of new and tasty features

First, and most important: a lot of stability and consistency fixes (previous release wasn’t properly . . . → Read More: Syck 0.9.2

all those IIS talks

Looks like almost every planet-php blogger mentioned that FastCGI for IIS thingie. I wonder: was it really that bad before it came? The thing which disturbes me in all this hype is that people will tend to think that fastcgi is something iis-specific. Hope they won’t, because fastcgi is a good (and really powerful) . . . → Read More: all those IIS talks

move to the new server

Ok, the transition is over and DNS is propagated. Both web-site and blog are on a new server now.

I guess I can put a badge “Powered by OpenSolaris” somewhere around

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ip2long, 32-bit/64-bit

It is a common practice, to use ip2long() function for getting integer-representation of ip-address (for database-storage).

Problem:

on systems with 32-bit integers, ip2long() returns values from -2147483648 to 2147483647

on systems with 64-bit integers, ip2long() returns values from 0 to 42949672945

Which means, that if you were using INT as a storage type on 32-bit server, you will need to . . . → Read More: ip2long, 32-bit/64-bit

syck vs. spyc (benchmarking)

Regarding syck vs. spyc debate which seems to appear again and again:

al_n @ [link]:

I re tested syck and it does make a BIG difference.
I tested with a yaml file of about 200,000 lines which I killed after an hour while using spyc. The same file was loaded with syck in about 5 minutes!!!

p.s. I hope to . . . → Read More: syck vs. spyc (benchmarking)