Archive for June, 2009
PHP 5.3 is here!
The PHP team announced the immediate release of the much anticipated PHP 5.3 This version is a major step forward for PHP which introduces namespaces,native closures, late static bindings and optional garbage collection for cyclic references, jump label (g0to). Also a handful of new extensions have been introduced (ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo) and Windows support has [...]
The State of MySQL
Jeremy Zawodny wrote an excellent article about MySQL called “The State of MySQL“. The article is featured in Linux Magazine and it is a fresh breath of air in the overwhelming amount of information related to the recent acquisition of Sun by Oracle.
Romanian browser usage trends
I’ve recently made a study about the browsers preferred by romanians. I don’t claim this study to be 100% accurate but it can be useful in some situations. The methodology was simple. I took the browser data for a few of the largest romanian sites listed in Trafic.ro (a web statistics system which provides browser [...]
WordPress upgrade under 3 minutes without leaving admin interface
I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.8 (Chet Baker). I think i never experienced such a smooth upgrade to a new version of a web application. When i logged in to the admin interface of my WordPress it just warned me that there is a new version and i should upgrade. Ok i clicked the warning [...]
How to use post for JSON instead of jQuery’s getJSON
jQuery has a nice function called getJSON() which performs a GET requests to a url and parses the result to a JSON object. But what if you want to do a POST request instead of a GET request. This is specially useful if you have very long strings that might break the GET request. jQuery [...]
Yahoo just lost a friend
Yahoo Messenger is the IM software i use most often, not that i really like it but here everyone is using it. So if i want to talk to someone i have to use it. Two days ago it asked me if i want it to automatically update itself. I said why not, lets make [...]
