Dev Derby

This morning I accepted a postion as supreme overlord team leader for the PHP team in The Combine‘s Dev Derby.…

This morning I accepted a postion as supreme overlord team leader for the PHP team in The Combine‘s Dev Derby.

What is Dev Derby?

The Combine (http://thecombine.org) is a tech event in Bloomington, IN going on from Sept. 9th-12th. On Sept. 11 there will be a “Dev Derby”. This is a one-day programming event which challenges teams, representing different programming languages, to build a web-based application for use by non-profits. The code will be released as open source, giving it life after the day has ended. There will be 5 teams competing. My suspicions say that there will be a Rails team and a CF team in addition to the PHP team.

I’m not sure how finalized some of the information I have on the details are but here is what I do know:

30 Jul 2010 Comments: 2

Announcing Bloomington PHP

Image of PHP Community I’m going to be ganking some of the announcement structure from Jeremy Kendall’s Memphis PHP Announcement…

28 May 2010 Comments: 0

tekx – lig’s talk on scalability and mysql

@lig will be talking about mysql 5.5 and scalability this session She is Senior Technical Support Engineer for MySQL. We…

@lig will be talking about mysql 5.5 and scalability this session She is Senior Technical Support Engineer for MySQL.

We will be covering

semi-synchronous replication
performance schema
SIGNAL/RESIGNAL
more partitioning options
InnoDB – LOTS of InnoDB (performance and scalability improvements)

In 5.5 InnoDB will be the default!!! WOOT.

Default replication is asynchronous. Meaning master writes to binary log and the slave connects and “pulls” contents of the binary log. Bad thing is if the master crashes, there’s no guarantee that a slave has all committed transanction.

Simi-Synchronous Replication is an alternative to asynchronous replication. Midway point between asynchronous and fully syncronous. Master only waits for a slave to receive an event. Don’t have to wait for slaves to actually commit.

Performance schema tracks at an extremely low level. Just like Information schema, tables are views or temporary tables. Activation doesn’t cause any change in server behavior. This is designed for advanced users.

Think of SIGNAL as an exception, a way to “return” an error. You get exception-handling logic for stored procedures, stored functions, triggers,events and db apps.

RESIGNAL lets you pass error information up. Think of it as a catch. Requres an active handler to execute. Lets you program on your PHP side to catch that very specific handling.

20 May 2010 Comments: 1

tekx – xdebug

Image via Wikipedia Today’s session is given by derick rethans, the author of xdebug so he might know what he’s…

: Image via Wikipedia

Today’s session is given by derick rethans, the author of xdebug so he might know what he’s talking about. 😉

Xdebug provides protections against things like stack overflow in PHP and infinite recursion. You can set this by setting the nesting level. It also provides a pretty formatted errors but not only is it pretty but it provides more information such as memory usage, time, function name and location on items in the call stack. It can also collect parameter information which shows the type with options to display the variable name (if possible) or values. It opts to minimal information to prevent crashing html displays with the browsers.

Another hot option is the ability to link to the files. The var_dump is overloaded to create a pretty, color-coded output. You can turn this off by setting the overload vardump option to 0.

20 May 2010 Comments: 2

tekx – getting git

Image of Travis Swicegood @tswicegood’s talk is for people who aren’t familiar with git or version control. They won’t be…

: Image of Travis Swicegood

@tswicegood’s talk is for people who aren’t familiar with git or version control. They won’t be delving into the the internals.

Installation of git for ubuntu can be done with apt. If I heard correctly (busy setting up to blog), Windows installation will require cygwin. OSX can be done with homebrew. Be sure to verify the install no matter which installation method you. One thing to keep in mind about git is that it started out on the command line and will always be heavily entrenched there. So hopefully your team is comfortable with that.

When you start using git, you should set up your user and email achat cialis. Config also allows you to enable colors.

19 May 2010 Comments: 0