SMTP legacy

The maximum total length of a text line including the CRLF is 1000 characters . . . → Read More: SMTP legacy

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 this world.

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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 . . . → 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 . . . → 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

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 . . . → 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 . . . → Read More: syck vs. spyc (benchmarking)

YAML, php, DevZone

Vikram Vaswani wrote an article for Zend Developer Zone about the Syck extension in PECL. That is, actually, a very nice introduction to YAML in PHP and I encourage everyone to look at it.

On the other hand, it reminds me, that I should release the new version…

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Alligator Eggs!

Alligator Eggs!

This is the funniest introduction to lambda-calculus ever. (saw it at #d channel at freenode)

Fink, new PDB

Fink project has launched the new Package Database (aka PDB) interface. Looks neat

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