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  • Monty quit the job

    Kristian Köhntopp posted the following (German speaking) blog entry: „Monty on the run“ stating that Monty quit his job at MySQL/Sun. He wonders where Monty’s new job will be…   If you followed the last months, Brian Aker and some other people forked the MySQL codebase and created the Drizzle project. I’m wondering if Monty…

  • Is MySQL-partitioning useful for very big real-life-problems?

    Some months ago I helped out in another project in which they had some performance problems. They had a very big table and the index of the table was bigger than the table itself. As every change in the table causes MySQL to recalculate/reload the index, this can take some seconds for such big tables.…

  • Comet in conjunction with a PHP socket server – Yet another way of server-client communication

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    Over the past years websites have changed to web-applications. This development goes along with a lot of new technologies. These are, for instance, Ajax and with it the formats to transfer data like the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

  • IPC 08: Time Planner and Early Bird prices

    IPC 2008 is ahead of us and everyone is preparing for the Conf. Expect the best and biggest IPC ever, with five days fully packed of sessions, workshops and special days like the Starter Day or the Enterprise Day (covering topics from Tools over QA up to PHP5 migration and Security). For those of you…

  • Xing API tot.

    Hey Bjoern, hast Du neue Infos zur XING API? Hab Deinen Blogeintrag gelesen, allerdings ist der auch schon ueber 1 Jahr alt. Der Eintrag ist in der Tat schon ein Weilchen her. In der Zwischenzeit bekomme ich immer wieder mal E-Mails (auch international) mit Anfragen, ob sich bei der API etwas Neues getan hätte. Offensichtlich…

  • Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6.0

    Natively Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6.0 doesn’t display PNGs correctly. But if you want to use graphics with transparency and anti-aliasing, other formats don’t work. Used as value of CSS property ‚filter‘ (implemented in IE since version 5.5) the AlphaImageLoader helps to fix this problem for background-images.   filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.filtername(attribute='value'[, …]); With the following three attributes…

  • Webinar „Create secure LAMP applications“

    Last week, noted PHP security expert Stefan Esser from SektionEins fame held a webinar together with MySQL regarding the topic „Create secure LAMP applications“. Unfortunately, this Webinar was in German, but if you understand German you might be interested in the Webinar recording which is now available at MySQL’s website. If you have further questions…

  • SQL Injections erkennen

    MySQL Proxy ist ein nettes, kleines Tool, das sich unauffällig zwischen einem MySQL Client und dem MySQL Server setzt und per lua dazu gebracht werden kann, Queries zu inspizieren und zu manipulieren. Stefan Esser von SektionEins postete heute einen Beitrag, wie man auf Basis dieses Tools bzw. unter Zuhilfenahme eines geeigneten lua-Scripts eine heuristische Erkennung…

  • Simple mapping for multiple heterogeneous data-sources

    The mapping of flat file-data seems to be a piece of cake: read data, read maps, validate data, map data, write data. But what if you have to map data from various and very (very!) heterogeneous international sources such as exports from different SAP systems and various Web- and Excel-Tools into a single structure?