Danne on January 21st, 2010

I have had some serious issues with one of my servers these last days. But finally things are starting to get back to normal. It seems /var was full due to mysql wreaking havoc for no particular reason. This lead - curiously enough - to network problems. If one of the discs failed because of [...]

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Danne on January 13th, 2010

A new Gartner report about PHP - PHP: Past, present and Future is mentioned in the last Zend newsletter. Even though I remain somewhat sceptical towards similar reports it is good to see that even Gartner is catching up. What they say actually do have an impact.
“PHP has been a cornerstone technology on the Web [...]

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Danne on January 5th, 2010

Adding support for MS SQL Server in PHP is not very difficult. Searching (Google/Bing/whatever) reveals lots of information on how to do this with Windows - naturally - but very little on how to go about it using Linux. Most people use precompiled PHP installations and I will show how to add MS SQL Server [...]

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