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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Webcast: Database Sharding at Netlog with MySQL and PHP
An interesting Webcast has just popped up, on MySQL’s usage in one of the biggest databases online: Netlog. Netlog, one of the fastest-growing Web communities in Europe, need to ensure its database infrastructure will scale to handle its traffic increase … Continue reading
Creating Benjamin Button’s Face Through CGI
A very impressive take on creating Benjamin Buttons face, using the most modern CGI known to man. Did you even realise the first hour of the movie was a completely computer animated face? Every action, reaction, motion and emotion of … Continue reading
What The Pirate Bay’s Guilty Verdict Really Means
In case you missed it, the four leading characters behind popular bittorrent tracker The Pirate Bay have been convicted for “assisting in making copyright content available“. Not to worry, they say, but what does the verdict really mean? Well, for … Continue reading
Case Insensitive Table And Column Names In MySQL
While you should always uphold the case-sensitive tablenames, it can be troublesome when migrating from a host that had this option enabled (table & column names become case insensitive), to a host that doesn’t have this option – so you … Continue reading
Compiling PHP With “--with-jpeg-dir” Not Working?
Had this strange issue a couple of days ago, where the following compile command didn’t give me the expected results (ability to use imagecreatefromjpeg() function). ./configure --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib make make test The “make test” yielded the following results. SKIP gif --> … Continue reading
