How to Handle BC Breaking PEAR Packages
Tweet The PEAR group recently published New Guidelines for BC breaking releases. The idea is simple, for example one variant would be: Old API: MyPackage-1.2.tgz New API: MyPackage_2-0.9.tgz
Monthly Archives: November 2003
snaps.mysql.com
Tweet Yep, finally, its there: snaps.mysql.com.
Latest Info on New MySQL Extension
Tweet Zak and Georg held a presentation on the new PHP MySQL extension (mysqli) in Hamburg. I’ve attended this presentation where they summarized all the infos about the latest development. Their slides are available online – a must-read for all Continue reading
Stigmergy is the Answer
Tweet Ever wondered why the Web works? Not from a technical, but from a sociologic viewpoint: Why do human beings still invent and use the Web? Stigmergy is the answer, says Joe Gregorio: The World-Wide Web is human stigmergy. The Continue reading
Remote, Remoter, the Remotest
Tweet No, this posting is not about Remote Procedure Calls, it’s about the “island” I currently spend my vacation: Hallig Langeness. I quoted “island”, because geologically, a Hallig is not an island as it consists of sand and has been Continue reading
Article on MySQL Transactions in “iX”, German Magazine for Professionals
Tweet Today, the current issue of iX has published my article on transactions in MySQL. It’s a comprehensive and brief introduction to the topic. The text is written in German. To obtain it, you buy iX at a kiosk or Continue reading
OSCOM: Proud to be a Member
Tweet Today, I became a member of OSCOM. I am particularly proud of this membership, because the spirit of OSCOM is unique, the current members are great individuals, and the objective a necessity: The goal is to bring together as Continue reading
To PEAR or to disaPEAR
Tweet … is the question of a current thread being discussed on pear-dev. Discussion mainly circles around “forking” PEAR to make a PEAR2 which might break BC to previous packages, run on PHP5 only, etc. Some quotes: Stopping in the Continue reading
Installing PCMCIA wlan-ng on SuSe 9.0
Tweet Finally I got my new Netgear WAG511 installed on SuSe 9.0. Here are some tips: 1. Carefully read SuSe’s instructions at http://portal.suse.de/sdb/en/2002/11/wavelan.html. 2. Then, as suggested there, read very carefully ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/README and procede as described. 3. Now you can Continue reading