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My own database abstraction class
Back in 2006 July, I decided that all other database classes are not worth it, and created my own one, incorporating best features from MySQL and PHP world. It resulted in this brilliant code, which I showed to few colleagues, … Continue reading
A perfect christmas story
This made me laugh. Providers were fighting who will give better ‘free sms’ plans. Then my GSM provider decided that they have enough resources for even better campaign – they offered adding 0.02 LTL to account balance for every SMS … Continue reading
Optimization operator
I have introduced this to quite a few colleagues in a form of question “what is the optimization operator in C++/PHP/…?” The answers varied a lot, people would come up with branch prediction stuff (likely(),etc), and many other ideas, though … Continue reading
Someone please run REPAIR TABLE, I am hungry!
Today I did hit some irony. I went to my favorite ‘order home delivery food online’ place, and the shopping cart failed to grow after my ordering clicks. Then I noticed a small line at the bottom of the page: … Continue reading
about open source and vulnerabilities
This email thread made my day :-) Tim is awesome.
Bumping up the version
As Wikipedia is part of the Web 2.0 revolution, there has been already pressure to upgrade to Web 3.0. I personally believe we should take more drastic approach, and go directly for Web 4.0. This Albert Einstein quote now rings … Continue reading
First Delta experience
Lost my luggage (for the first time). On a domestic flight. Saw it last time in JFK. Yay Delta. I got an ‘emergency’ t-shirt from them. Pity it doesn’t say “I lost my luggage and all I got is this … Continue reading
HTTP 2.0
Tim discovered inefficiency in communication between squids and backend servers (and eventually, clients) – the problem was lack of Content-Length: header for dynamically generated content. Though HTTP/1.1 uses chunked encoding inside keep-alive connections, HTTP/1.0 completely relies on Content-Length:, so lack … Continue reading
Most secure MySQL password
Where is the password? :) $ mysql -u root -password foobar
Wikimaniaaaaa!!!
It is somewhat too late to post about Wikimania, so I won’t keep it long. Finally my lightning talk bits are on internet. Please note, that the idea of presentation came just few minutes before giving it. Pity there’s no … Continue reading
