Posted on Tue 18 October 2005 in Databases • Tagged with DB2
Hopefully this proves useful to someone else in the same position in the future... I have been working on a simple PHP application that connects to DB2 using the ibm_db2 extension. Recently I decided to try scaling it up to test the application with a more realistic (10GB) database …
Posted on Sat 15 October 2005 in Gaming • Tagged with Personal
Well, I seem to have caught a bit of the online poker bug. I started playing poker a few years ago on a monthly basis with friends from work, and had a lot of fun, but the frequency died down when the host's first child arrived and I found myself …
The slides for my php|works 2005 presentation, LIMIT
Yourself to MySQL No
More, are
now online. I'll update this entry once I actually get through talking
through the slides 
:
The talk went really well, despite my initial fears that I was running over much of the same …
php|arch is donating the profits from the sale of their new Pocket PHP Reference (would that be &Pocket then?) to the Canadian Red Cross fund for Hurricane Katrina relief. Buy early, and you may get one of the 50 copies autographed by Rasmus himself. I suppose there's even a …
A few years ago I had a Neuros 20GB audio player. It met my two primary requirements: Linux-friendly and capable of playing OGG Vorbis files. I have ripped most of my CD collection to Vorbis format, and the files all sit on Linux at home because that's what …
Until very recently, the entire set of PDO documentation, including the docs for seven different database drivers, was contained within the PDO documentation. While this was fine in the early days of PDO when there were only a handful of users, as PHP 5.1 starts entering the era of …
One quick highlight from OSCON: on Tuesday night, right after my tutorial, I was lucky enough to attend the Portland PHP User's Group, where they had arranged an all-star PHP line up, including Rasmus, Andrei, Wez, Marcus, Ilia, George, Laura, Adam, Ben, Luke, Shane, John, Stefan, Terry, and Chris-- well-documented …
Posted on Mon 08 August 2005 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Personal
While at OSCON, I finally met Zak Greant, the EZ Systems developer and former MySQL Community Advocate from Vancouver who Chris Shiflett had mistaken me for at php|tropics. In an apparent attempt to forge his own identity, Zak had shaved his goatee and grown his hair, making him look …
Posted on Mon 08 August 2005 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby
The presentations, handouts, and solutions for the "Deep Dive with Apache Derby: Perl, PHP, and Python" tutorial I gave at OSCON 2005 are finally online, including a couple of last-minute corrections:
The tutorial (my first solo 3.5 hour teaching session) went reasonably well, although my …
Posted on Wed 03 August 2005 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby
Heh -- one day after my OSCON tutorial on Apache Derby: Perl, PHP, and
Python, where I focused on the 10.1-alpha release from back in May,
the Derby team announced the first Derby 10.1
release.
Figures that there would be a flurry of activity after my talk
I also …