The PHP-QA team would like to announce the TestFest for the month of May 2008. The TestFest is an event that aims at improving the code coverage of the test suite for the PHP language itself. As part of this event, local User Groups (UG) are invited to join the TestFest. These UGs can meet physically or come together virtually. The point however is that people network to learn together. Aside from being an opportunity for all of you to make friends with like minded people in your (virtual) community, it also will hopefully reduce the work load for the PHP.net mentors.All it takes is someone to (more…)
Once again we are glad to announce that we have been accepted to be a Google Summer of Code project. See our program for this year’s GSoC.We would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Google Inc. for this privilege to participate once again, and would like to invite everyone to look at our list of ideas: http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2008.Students are of course more than welcome to come up with their own ideas for their proposals and we will consider each and every application that we will receive.So once again, thanks to everyone who is involved in this magnificent journey and we hope to (more…)
Jeff Atwood writes:
If you’ve used Windows Vista, you’ve probably noticed that Vista’s file copy performance is noticeably worse than Windows XP. I know it’s one of the first things I noticed. Here’s the irony– Vista’s file copy is based on an improved algorithm and actually performs better in most cases than XP. So how come it seems so darn slow?
PS: Jeff adds that Vista SP1 has switched back to XP’s algorithm. Duhh! (more…)
In my last blog entry on mod_backhand, I mentioned that you could implement redundancy in a web cluster by having multiple load balancers and using round robin DNS pointing to the load balancers. This technique is mentioned in the mod_backhand presentation notes by Theo Schlossnagle, one of the author’s of mod_backhand.
But if you think about it carefully, in my opinion, this solution doesn’t really work well:
Round robin DNS systems simply return a list of IP addresses (sorted randomly) that resolve that domain name. Most DNS server (more…)
Happy New Year Folks! Let’s keep on blogging.
This posting by Ka-Ping Yee on why PHP should never be taught is precisely why PHP should be taught. If something is popular but hard to understand then we need an education process. To just shake our heads and give up is simply immature (or trolling). Otherwise we might as well say that English (or any other spoken language for that matter) should not be taught, because spoken languages are illogical, imprecise and therefore … useless 
Most programming languages have similar gotchas. Oracle’s P (more…)
