I took a walk down memory lane this evening. I thought I might as well bore you with the details.

One of my first forays into the open source world was to participate in the Linux Documentation Project (TLDP). At the time (circa 1999), I was working for IBM as …

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I should have mentioned this before, but now that I noticed Chris Jones' post on the Underground PHP and Oracle Manual, I felt obliged to point out that one of the final fruits of my labours at IBM is now visible in the DB2 "Viper" Information Center -- a set of …

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The stable release of the ibm_db2 PECL extension for IBM DB2, Cloudscape, and Apache Derby brought a high performing, highly functional database connectivity alternative to Unified ODBC for PHP 4 and 5 users. However, in and of itself a database extension does not enable you to use the many …

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It is perhaps a sad reflection on my life that I'm using a personal blog to offer technical information about a product that I work on, rather than telling you about what I ate last night (spinach and goat cheese salad with a raspberry vinaigrette dressing, quinoa, and a rather …

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Good news for all you DB2 for Linux people who love Ubuntu -- IBM just validated Ubuntu as a Linux distribution on which IBM is willing to offer its enterprise level support. You can see that Ubuntu was excited in their press release about the accomplishment. And rightully so: no other …

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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 …

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