Wordcraft 0.6 available
I am pleased to announce the release of Wordcraft 0.6. I have been using it for a month or so now and I am learning some things. I had been having trouble logging in lately from multiple places...
OSCON moves to San Jose - or - I will miss Portland
I have had the privilege to go to the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 4 of the past 5 years. During that time, it has been held in beautiful Portland, Oregon. Well, the OSCON 2009 web site...
Know PHP/MySQL and wanna earn a buck?
Apparently, all the work we have put into dealnews.com over the last 11 1/2 years can be had for $250 and can be delivered in 10 hours.http://www.getafreelancer.com/projects/PHP-Joomla/Clone-dealnews-...
Open Source Web Design
So, my wife told me that my site design was boring. Yeah, she was right. I am no designer. I just don't have that gene. But, during my work on Wordcraft, I came across some coo...
Wordcraft 0.5 available
Well, I blogged about Wordcraft the other day. I have just been running live on the software for 4 days now. Well, that post had no URI associated with it. It took me two days to fig...
Wordcraft, a simple PHP blogging application
So, a while back, not sure when, I was listening to the P3 Podcast and Paul mentioned his dislike for Wordpress. He said he wished there was a simple blogging application. I am probably ...
PHP Appalachia Corrections
Just got home finally from PHP Appalachia. I enjoyed meeting all the great people. I presented about what I learned and how we deal with importing large amounts of CSV data into MySQL. I ...
Deploying Scalable Websites with Memcached
I spoke at the MySQL Conference and Expo this year about the architecture we have here at dealnews.com. After my talk, Jimmy Guerrero of Sun/MySQL invited me to give a webinar on how dealnews uses m...
strtotime() - The PHP, date swiss army knife
Man, what did I do before strtotime(). Oh, I know, I had a 482 line function to parse date formats and return timestamps. And I still could not do really cool stuff. Like tonight I n...
Shrinking ibdata files after innodb_file_per_table
Patrick Galbraith wrote in his blog about switching to innodb_file_per_table. For those that don't know about this setting, it places the data for the tables into .ibd files within the database dir ...