I will be speaking at PHPCon West 2003 on October 23 in Santa Clara, CA. I’ll be giving an updated version of my One Year of PHP at Yahoo! talk. If you didn’t make it to Portland this summer, you can hear me live in the Bay Area this fall. Here’s the abstract: Running a […]
A couple of weeks ago I read Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and The Bazaar, a collection of essays about Open Source software. Raymond writes quite well for a techie (either that or he has a superb editor), and the book is coherent. I didn’t agree with most of the book, but I think it’s important […]
I don’t have time to read most of the Apache mailing lists, but I do keep an eye on the low-traffic cvs commit list. There’s been a lot of discussion over the past month or so about the upcoming 1.3.28 release, and even a couple of dates proposed. The most recent message suggests that we’ll […]
In one of the sections on my “One Year of PHP at Yahoo!” talk I’m giving next week, I mention the security implications of the allow_url_fopen config setting. I recommend that people set allow_url_fopen off, and instead use the libcurl extension to do server-side HTTP fetches. Here’s a comparison of a simple HTTP fetch using […]
I’ve just started using The Webalizer to do logfile analysis for radwin.org and hebcal.com. Back in 1998 when I first started hosting my own domain name, I wanted to see where people were coming from and what they were viewing, so I set up the wwwstat script as a cron job to generate statistics. I’ve […]
If you need to run both SSL and non-SSL Apache 1.3 on the same host, the most efficient way is to run two separate server instances rather than using <VirutalHost>s and mutltiple Listen directives. If you use multiple Listen statements to listen on either multiple ports or multiple addresses, Apache needs to use select() in […]
I’m trying to get PHP 5.0.0-dev to work under Cygwin. It hasn’t been much fun so far. I’m working with George on a non-Yahoo! project, so I’ve gotta get PHP installed on a computer that I can use at home. So I figured I’d just build it our Windows 2000 laptop under Cygwin. Should be […]
I’ve been invited to speak at PHPCon East 2003 in April: PHPCon East 2003 – (April 23-25, 2003). PHPCon announces PHPCon East 2003 in New York City. This conference features two days of technical learning with speakers such as Rasmus Lerdorf, Michael Radwin, and Jeremy Zawodny. PHPCon East also adds a third, full day of […]
Sander van Zoest started off by describing three commond causes of link rot: Redesign/reorganize your website Switch dynamic page language (for example, from JSP to PHP) Typos (user hand-edits URL and makes a mistake) Consequences? Link rot can be distilled down to one thing: 404 == bad user experience. van Zoest spoke about some ways […]
I got together with Ze’ev Suraski for lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe (just across the street from the Alexis Park Hotel). We spoke about the matzav, how difficult it is to be a vegetarian during Pesach, Israeli politics, and our respective businesses. I got to practice a little bit of my Hebrew, but before […]