I was just skimming over Santos’ Post about SDO, and was saddened to see more anecdotes and less facts.
Here are two points that you should take note of:
- PDO is an “ultra fast direct layer to the database”.
- The benchmarks I think you’re referring to do not include the magic turbo switch I talk about here, that highlights performance problems when using prepared statements, which are on by default.
I’d love to see someone run some fair comparisons and publish the numbers.
Original post by wez+via_rss@netevil.org (Wez Furlong)
Deborphan finds packages installed on your Debian/GNU system that have no other packages depending on them. Its primary goal (and default action) is to trace unused libraries.
The output of the command deborphan is a list of packages that are no longer required. It can be used with apt to automatically remove unused packages: apt-get remove $(deborphan)
The previous command can be required to run more times in order to remove all useless packages, until we don’t obtain the following output: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove […].
One of the things on my agenda for OSCON (which was excellent, just like last time) was to sit down with a couple of the folks from IBM to discuss why the SDO extensions hadn’t taken off as they’d hoped, and what they could do to foster some growth.
One of the things that was apparent was that this SDO stuff has quite a high barrier to entry–too many three letter acronyms for starters, and its origins in the C++ and Java world don’t help make it very accessible to the typical PHP developer.
I’m pleased to see that IBM are already acting on a few of the things we discussed, the most visible of which so far is the publication of and introduction to SDO and working with XML using SDO.
If you’ve wondered what this SDO stuff is all about, please read through those articles. After having done that, if theres something you’re not clear on, or if everything is clear, or if you have some other thoughts on the matter, then please take a moment to send your feedback to Graham Charters (you’ll find his email address on the top of the articles).
Graham and the rest of the SDO team would really love to hear what you think about SDO, so that they can work on making it easier to get into.
Original post by wez+via_rss@netevil.org (Wez Furlong)
A useful hack for serving up CSS that only Internet Explorer for Windows can interpret (i.e. to fix various bugs). Other browsers simply ignore the property. Useful for working round the position:fixed and min-height issues, as well as any others that require CSS that is only interpreted on Windows IE.
After 6 months of waiting PHP 4 users finally can install an update that fixes the critical unset() vulnerability that I have disclosed to php.net at the end of January.
Because there are meanwhile a lot of rumours about this vulnerability in the underground and because the PHP 4.4.3 release announcement does not mention this critical hole at all I wrote up a little article about it, which you can read here.
PS: This is the long awaited hole that allows PHP code execution in latest patched phpBB.
Original post by blog-admin@nopiracy.de (Stefan Esser)
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