What to do in the Bay Area?
So, as I said before, I will be at the MySQL Conference next week. I am renting a car this year so I don't have to wait on cabs or deal with them at all. So, I am mobile and being from a modern So...
2008 MySQL Conference
In just two weeks I will be heading to the 2008 MySQL Conference. I will be speaking this year. My two talks are: MySQL Hacks and Tricks to Make Phorum Fast 04/16/2008 4:25pm PDT Room: Ballroom...
Forums are the red headed step child of a web site
I have seen it time and time again. And yet, every time, it irritates me to no end. You are on a professional web site. You are navigating around and at some point you hit the link for their forums...
Speaking at MySQL Conference 2008
I had mentioned a while back that I submitted three proposals for the 2008 MySQL Conference. Well, two were accepted. From one server to a cluster In the last 10 years, dealnews.com has grown from...
GoDaddy support is awful
Luckily, I don't have personal experience with them. But, based on the 2 to 3 users per week that come to the Phorum support forums and IRC, they have the worst support of any host on the internet. ...
How NOT to get support and how to turn the other cheek.
So, I checked my email this morning and found this jewel: I might use Phorum if you brain deads knew how to upload or download your files via FTP. Your documentation has no order to it, its all a mess...
Responsible use of the $_REQUEST variable.
A recent thread split on the PHP Internals list has been about the use of the $_REQUEST variable. I have seen more than one person make the following logic mistake: I may get data via GET I may ge...
Charity for our little team?
I don't often beg for stuff, but this is not for me per se. The Phorum team is raising money to get all of our team (all 3 of us) to Santa Clara for MySQL Conference. We will be part of the DotOrg...
Finally, Phorum 5.2 has made it to stable!
You can read the full announcement in the news post at phorum.org. Summary: When we officially started on 5.2 in March of 2006, we had several goals. I think we achieved most of those. We also a...
Taking a moment to give thanks.
We are just passed the time of year when we give thanks (in the US anyway) and we are coming up on the time when we all try and be giving. I feel like my last few blog posts have been a little too n...