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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 [...]

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) way [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]