DNS SRV-records support in HTTP-browsers

Ten years ago, today, on september 20, 1999 bug titled “DNS: RFC 2782 not supported (SRV records)” was submitted to Mozilla. Today, in 2009, bug has patch attached, but it is not committed and waits for approval. I doubt, that is the longest-living bug in mozilla, but, still, 10 years is a great age for a bug. Let’s party! :)
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work with TwitterData in PHP

I recently created a small library for working with twitterdata in PHP. Sources are available from GitHub. Twitter Data is a simple, open, semi-structured format for embedding machine-readable, yet human-friendly, data in Twitter messages. . . . → Read More: work with TwitterData in PHP

PHP-FPM is BSD-licensed now

It took several years of waiting, but, it finally happened. PHP-FPM project is officially BSD-licensed now and has good chances to become a part of official PHP distribution. . . . → Read More: PHP-FPM is BSD-licensed now

GSoC is about to start

Google announced the list of students, they will be sponsoring this summer to work on open-source projects. My congratulations to everyone, who succeeded. . . . → Read More: GSoC is about to start

The shortcut to switch tabs is…

The shortcut to switch tabs is…

TextMate:
Command + Option + Left/Right

Skype:
Command + Shift + Left/Right

Adium, Firefox:
Command + Left/Right

Colloquy, Firefox:
Command + Up/Down

Opera, Safari, Terminal:
Command + Shift + [/]

Dear Santa, please, bring me Mk 41 next christmas, so I can fix . . . → Read More: The shortcut to switch tabs is…

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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Fink, new PDB

Fink project has launched the new Package Database (aka PDB) interface. Looks neat . . . → Read More: Fink, new PDB

Some things which happened while I wasn’t blogging

Haiku OS reported on their Google Summer of Code results

Makes me think, that I should really-really get some old mac-mini and install Haiku on it. At least, I can program some fancy Jukebox out of it

ohloh.net: The World’s Oldest Source Code Repositories

Hey! I was only 1 year old, when they started to use version . . . → Read More: Some things which happened while I wasn’t blogging

www.milkfarmsoft.com up and running

Web site of my company (Milk Farm Sotware, ltd.) is kinda “alive” again. The design is brand-new, the content is partially updated.

The texts and downloads are there — everything should be working fine. I didn’t do any software updates this time — just republished old archives (they still work) to the redesigned site.

So, in case you . . . → Read More: www.milkfarmsoft.com up and running