The Problem with TodaysMeet
TodaysMeet is a project I started in 2008 to help my father solve a problem in one of his classes. The fact that it’s as »
The Evolution of SUMO
When I joined the SUMO team six months ago, the team was just starting a discussion of “where do we go from here?” SUMO was built »
WP: Better Search Widget 1.1
Better Search Widget 1.1 is a significant upgrade to Better Search Widget that adds new features and fixes an old bug with internationalization. Features (New »
Responsible SQL: How to Authenticate Users
Most SQL-injection articles set a horrible example for young programmers. Here is a very typical “bad example” of why you need to escape user data before »
Connecting PHP, IIS 6, and SQL Server 2005
I know I will be accosted for this, but at work we needed to run PHP on IIS 6 (fairly simple) and connect it to a »
Help Me Scale
I’ve been reading Eran Hammer-Lahav’s intelligent posts on microblog scalability, and now I’m concerned about my own “microblog” site, Picofiction. Similar to social »
How to: Upgrade or Recompile PHP on RHEL5 (Outdated)
Update: This post is nearly two years old, and this is not how I would recommend upgrading PHP on RHEL, yet it continues to get traffic. »