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There are several ways to transfer data from one mysql server to an other. Dumping a full table and re-importing it is rather simple, but sometimes you only want to transfer a selection of data. I will quickly explain the most common ones and then explain how i solved my way out of having neither phpmyadmin nor the privileges of SELECT...INTOA OUTFILE.
My use case was the following:A A client inadvertedly deleted many entries in a database table. There was no way of finding out what exactly was deleted...
In my Beyond Frameworks talk, I explained how a component-based architecture can help answer some of the important (i.e. expensive!) questions you might face when creating long-lived apps that rely on a PHP framework. In this series of blog posts, I'm going to look at how to go about creating and working with components.
In previous articles, I've introduced you to the component skeleton that ComponentManager creates for you when you run the phix php-library:init command. Our skeleton is designed to be...
A friend of mine lives on Bonieta Harrold Drive. I live on a Windsor Hill Drive. Both of us have a problem in common, which is that poorly designed software is incapable of accepting the length of our street address. For me, American Express refuses to accept more than a€oWINDSOR HILL Da€ť, which still arrives [...]
And now for the final post in this series, unless I start to get some serious questions :)
But if other NoSQL databases are not trustworthy, why are JCR implementations?
First up, plenty of people run very success large scale mission critical applications on top of MongoDB and friends. The interesting bit is that JCR is an API and the implementations are free to choose any database for final persistence. Jackrabbit for example can be installed using any RDBMS for storage or even the file system. Our own...
I've run Funkatron.com on ExpressionEngine for a long time. It's a strong, flexible, powerful CMS that I recommend to many folks who need to build content-driven sites, especially those where the site will be administered by non-programmers. It's a very solid choice for consultants and freelancers, who can build the relatively small license cost into their fees - and probably save the client in the long run.However, over the years, I've found ExpressionEngine to be overkill for a blog site. If you're...
Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition ("XE") Beta is now downloadable for Linux x86_64 and Windows (32-Bit). Oracle XE is a free, slimmed down version of the full Oracle DB. Documentation for XE 11gR2 is here. One of the Oracle features retained...
While under development, we didn't fully realize what all this release would entail. As this development cycle began, we had a perfect storm of events: a holiday break, a particularly motivated project team, a few moments of clarity, and an engaged community. These things gave us significantly more updates, fixes, and improvements for v2.3 than we expecteda€¦
On DZone.com today the results of their framework poll have been posted with some not-so-surprising results base on popularity and number of users in general.A disclaimer: creating this poll was a bit of a catch-22, as I could not include all PHP frameworks (would have been a very long list) and had to make a selection based on popularity; of course that meant a guess by using Twitter and google results, but the ultimate popularity of the framework, at least in the audience of Web Builder Zone, would...
I really like the way Trent describes blogs:
There's something sacred about reading a blog post on someone else's site. It's like visiting a friend's house for a quick meal 'round the breakfast table. It's personala€‰-a€‰you're in their space, and the environment is uniquely suited for idea exchange and uninterrupted conversation. In many ways, we should be treating our blogs like our breakfast tables. Be welcoming & gracious when you host, and kind & respectful when visiting.My blog is my personal...
Benfords Law is not an exciting new John Nettles based detective show, but an interesting observation about the distribution of the first digit in sets of numbers originating from various processes. It says, roughly, that in a big collection of data you should expect to see a number starting with 1 about 30% of the time, but starting with 9 only about 5% of the time. Precisely, the proportion for a given digit can be worked out as:function benford($num) {A A A A return log10(1+1/$num);}Real data does...
Eric Hogue has written up a new post about a few different technologies you can use to profile your PHP applications quickly and easily.There are many available tools to profile a PHP application. Learning how to use them can help us pinpoint which parts are slow. With this information we can pick the optimizations that will give us the best results. This post describes the installation and configuration of some of them. I tested them in a Ubuntu 10.10 virtual machine. If you want to try those tools,...
php|architect has announced a new effort they've launched to recognize the groups and projects in the PHP community that have had an impact. The Impact Awards is a yearly effort to recognize those contributions.In short, we at php|architect recognize that we are standing on the shoulders of giants. We build our site, our training and our magazine using tools created by developers who are giving freely of themselves. We want to recognize a few of those who have had an impact specifically on the PHP...
On PHPCodeBase.com there's a recent post looking at a handy file system function that you can use to search directories simpler than a usual opendir/readdir method - glob.Are you guys still using opendir() function to read the the files from the folder in PHP? Luckily PHP have the glob() function which perform this task very faster and smarter.He compares an example of the opendir/readdir method to a few line replacement with glob, both searching the same directory for files. He looks at the arguments...
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Continuing with my post from the other day I will try to answer some of the questions that seem a bit reoccurring.
The first question I want to address is why JCR?
While we were making some decisions over the summer it became clear fairly quickly that we want a clear separation of the storage and the frontend layers. One big reason there was to become database agnostic (ORM vs. ODM vs ..). But also to ease in scaling and deployment and most importantly to ease development (single server vs. cluster). So...
Last week I had the distinct pleasure to be invited to the 4th annual Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (known as POSSCON). It couldn't be a better place to be this time of year; while the weather in Northeast Ohio is still cold and dreary, Columbia, SC was sunny and beautiful in the mid 80s during the entire time I was there.
But the weather wasn't the primary reason why I enjoyed my time at POSSCON. In all of the open source conferences I've been to, I think this one really was able to bring out...
In a recent post to his blog David MĂĽller has taken a look at parallel processing in PHP using a few different methods - system calls, fork, and curl.Since PHP does not offer native threads, we have to get creative to do parallel processing. I will introduce 3 fundamentally different concepts to emulate multithreading as good as possible.For each of the technologies mentioned above, he provides a simple bit of sample code that does simple tasks like echoing out strings and writing to files. He also...
Nicolas BĂ©rard-Nault has put together a new post looking at the role that Value Objects play in application development and, more specifically, how they fit in with domain driven design (DDD). He looks to explain the unknown value of Value Objects to developers that might not know how helpful they really can be.One of the main rules of DDD is that value objects are immutable. This is often not as self-evident as it seems, as many programmers are not even aware of the state they leak and create. Sadly,...
In a recent post to the Zend Developer Zone, Cal Evans points out some webinar recordings that have been made available by Zend as a part of their webcasts series.There are a lot of webinars out there begging for developers to participate. Many contain quality content that is useful to developers; others, not so much. As a company who builds tools for developers, most assume Zend's webinars are nothing more than ads for their products; this is why we don't assume things. In reality, about 1/2 of their...
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