Memcached Storage Class for Zend_OpenId_Provider
I experimented a bit with creating an OpenID provider entity using Zend_OpenId_Provider. It was not a hard task to implement, but seeing that the default storage class is file based made me shiver....
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Make Sure Those 404 and 500 Responses Are Long Enough
Internet Explorer is a term you can’t stay indifferent to. Whenever you hear somebody say it, they either say it with a respectful awe, or they utter it with a developer’s pain. Today I was on the...
View ArticleZend Framework Database Admin
If you’re looking for a simple tool that uses Zend Framework’s robust database classes (such as Zend_Db and Zend_Db_Table), you can check out zdbform. It’s a short yet effective library that let’s you...
View ArticleConnecting Several PHP Processes To The Same MySQL Transaction
The following concept is still under examination, but my initial tests proved successful, so I thought it’s time to share. Here is a problem: There is a batch job reading remote data through XML-RPC,...
View ArticleNetwork Latency Inside And Across Amazon EC2 Availability Zones
I couldn’t find any info out there comparing network latency across EC2 Availability Zones and inside any single Availability Zone. So I took 6 instances (2 on each US zone), ran some test using a...
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Cross Domain AJAX Calls and Iframe Communication How To
I set out to write a short tutorial about cross domain ajax calls and communication between iframes using url hashes (fragments), but I found this great tutorial by Michael Mahemoff covering the...
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Google Chrome 2, CSS Content-Type and Amazon S3
It seems that ever since Google Chrome 2 was released, some of the CSS files I was serving from S3 were not being treated as valid by it, and the page layouts would break because of it. Firefox and IE...
View ArticleApache mod_ssl Makes Your Clients Crawl Compared To Nginx SSL Module
The SSL/TLS process is a heavy one, it involves algorithm negotiation between client and server, key exchanges, cyphering, decyphering and authentication. But what’s surprising is, that the server...
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Improving Wordpress Caching: Batcache and Redirects
There’s a great plugin for Wordpress called Batcache by Andy Skelton, which uses memcached as the cache backend for object cache and full page caches. It’s a great piece of code, and using it is a must...
View ArticleERROR 2026 (HY000): SSL connection error — The Solution
If you’re using mysql server with SSL, and ever encountered this error whenever you try to access the database after it’s running: ERROR 2026 (HY000): SSL connection error One thing to check is if your...
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