prepared statements vs the query cache.

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

PHP Syck, part 2

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 . . . → Read More: PHP Syck, part 2

Mozilla will support http-only cookies

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 . . . → Read More: Mozilla will support http-only cookies

Sun Optimized AMP Stack for the Solaris 10 OS

Sun Optimized AMP Stack for the Solaris 10 OS .

Sun offers a new recipe for success — the Solaris OS + AMP (Solaris 10 OS, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). For customers committed to the open AMP stack, this “recipe” provides the same Web applications they know and use, but on a more secure open-source . . . → Read More: Sun Optimized AMP Stack for the Solaris 10 OS

AOL and OpenID

AOL announced, that every AOL/AIM user is openid-enabled since now. I guess it makes AOL the largest OpenID provider in the world.

Wow!

*magick*

I guess I’m finally migrating from imagick to MagickWand

imagick is just too plain buggy/unstable. the “pro” argument was “but it is in pecl”. It’s not enough anymore

lcache

Does anyone know what this is going to be?

I was going to name my extension (soon to be published) to PHP “lcache”, when I suddenly noticed, that there is, already something named “lcache”. The most funny part that it is php-related too…

ini2yaml in PHP

If you still use INI file for some of your PHP-projects configuration, I guess it is time for you to migrade to YAML which is more flexible and has way more expressiveness. Here is a little tool to help you in migration process

<?php require “Spyc.php”; if ($argc != 3) die(“I need 2 parameters: in_file.ini, . . . → Read More: ini2yaml in PHP

WHATWG Blog

To whom it may concern: WHATWG started a blog some time ago.

rfc 3546 in FireFox2

FireFox 2 has support for TLS server name indication. Yoo-Hoo!!!

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