I have my first package officially included in fink-unstable, today: lighttpd 1.4.13 (it might take several hours before this link will have information).

Feel free to test it and drop a comment to me :) If you are using unstable distribution, it should be as easy as:

fink selfupdate         [to get latest package definitions]
fink apropos lighttpd   [to list all lighttpd modules which are available]
fink install lighttpd   [to install lighttpd-server]

This will install and start up the server (if you don’t have some other webserver on port 80). You will be able to add any modules you need after that. I made separate packages for each of the officially-bundled modules + mod_GeoIP + mod_extforward. If you want more — just let me know.

Modules-configuration is made similiar to apache2 package. There is mods_available folder and there is mods_enabled folder. To enable the module, you just need to create a symlink.

The only piece of functionality which is not enabled is memcached support (in mod_cml and mod_trigger_b4_dl), as it requires an additional dependency which waits for validation by fink’s moderators.

I am thinking about adding some package to enable lighttpd+mod_fastcgi+php5 setup automatically, but I haven’t figured out how to make it “beautiful enough” :)

For now, php support can be added manually (see corresponding lighttpd docs)

p.s. Yes, I know that 1.4.15 is already out. Unfortunately, it takes some time to pass the initial validation. Updates would be faster, I hope :)

Robin Schumacher wrote an article about the new feature of MySQL 5.0.37: Using the New MySQL Query Profiler

this is definitely something worth reading and using. I wonder, if such thing could be integrated in symfony’s debug-toolbar

Opera 9.20 beta is released. You can get it at Opera Labs. I’ve been using it for several days now — really nice build.

Speed Dial is a killer-feature. I don’t need “Personal toolbar” anymore

Did you know, that fink has growl-notifications plugin? It’s extremely convenient when you have some long-lasting build-processes

To make it work you need to:

1. install Growl

2. execute “fink install mac-growl-pm586” in your terminal

image © Asari

Not the newest thing in the world, but still useful. Neil Kandalgaonkar published a list of Links to essays in “Best Software Writing I” by Joel Spolsky. As all the book consists of these articles and Joel’s comments it is a good reading for those who doesn’t think comments are that much valuable :)

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 the emulation

Patch will be applied to 5.1 branch

Ivo Jansch wrote the funniest php story I read recently: ”System.out.print in PHP”.

Awesome!

I gave a little talk at #php.thinktank today about YAML, php and my latest work in this regard. It happened a bit of spontaneously, so noone was invited. It was my first try, to make introduction to yaml for php prgrammers, and if there is more interest I will give another talk which will cover more details, this time with proper scheduling :)

You can find irc-transcription here and if you find it interesting, drop me a note

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 build php-extension using sources from subversion

Instructions (for those who need them):

1. Install Syck-library using your favorite package-manager (stable 0.55 version will do)

2. svn export http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/syck/trunk/ext/php/ syck-php

3. cd syck-php

4. phpize

5. ./configure

6. make

7. sudo make install

8. add extension=syck.so to your php.ini file

9. restart apache or fastcgi processes

ionous has several very interesting YAML-related articles here