PHP's MySQL connection timeout

You should be warned. Amazingly, in 10 years of PHP/MySQL development work I never hit this issue in the manner I did this week. There are several reasons that PHP could not be able to connect to My...

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Namespaces, *sigh*

If you read internals (and by read, I mean glance at the barrage of subjects in your inbox), you too have seen the flood of namespaces related emails. I have no technical expertise to add to the conv...

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Bubble!?

I am glad I am not the only one that wonders what is up with the social network bub^M^M^M boom. I will try and keep up with takedown notices as quick as I can. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/958560/h...

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Putting files into a database

So, once again, I was listening to the Pro::PHP Podcast (or is it Newscast?  guys?).  They were talking about putting files in to a database table.  Now, most people will say you should never do th...

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My editor of choice

So, I was listening to the Pro PHP Podcast on the way home from work today.  They were talking about Komodo a lot.  I figured I would give my favorite editor a plug.  Believe it or not, it's jEdit....

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