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WebDevRadio.com: Episode 49: Brian Moon at the MySQL User Conference

Michael Kimsal has release the last podcast of his MySQL Conference series of interviews with other attendees. In this episode, he interviews Brian Moon of the Phorum project (employed at DealNews.com).

Brian was kind enough to review both of his presentations which go in to great detail about the scaling issues he’s faced both with DealNews.com […]

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Zend_Log_Writer_Mail traction - Brian DeShong

Since I posted my Zend_Log_Writer_Mail proposal and asked for feedback on fw-core, it’s gotten a bit of traction in the comments.

Perhaps it will be officially reviewed and placed into the incubator before php|tek 2008 in May because it’s part of my “Robust Batch Processing with PHP” talk.

Special thanks to Thomas Fritz, Lars Strojny, Tomas Markauskas, […]

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Brian Moon’s Blog: PHP’s MySQL connection timeout

In the process of debugging one of his scripts, Brian Moon came across a default setting (and problem) in the MySQL extension that didn’t seem to make much sense to him:

There are several reasons that PHP could not be able to connect to MySQL. […] Or, perhaps the entire server is offline.

The mysql.connect_timeout setting in […]

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Brian Moon’s Blog: Responsible use of the $_REQUEST variable

In one of his recent blog entries, Brian Moon takes a look at what he considers the “proper use” of the PHP superglobal $_REQUEST (as brought on by a thread on the PHP internals mailing list.

I have seen more than one person make the following logic mistake: I may get data via GET, I may […]

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Brian Moon’s Blog: PHP session cookie refresh

Brian Moon has posted a tip (and a bit of code) he’s worked up to help make a users cookies last a bit longer than they were originally designed to:

When you start a session, if the user had no cookie, they get a new session id and they get a cookie. You can configure that […]

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Brian Moon’s Blog: Apache Worker and PHP

In a recent post to his blog, Brian Moon talks about the experience he’s had with using PHP on Apache 2 with a threaded MPM at Dealnews.com.

Well, first, what is an MPM? It stands for Multi-Processing Module. […] The most commonly used threaded MPM is the Worker MPM. In this MPM, you have several processes […]

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WebDevRadio podcast series - Interview with Brian Moon on scaling LAMP - Michael Kimsal

This is the last in my MySQL conference series.  Brian Moon, author of Phorum and Sr Developer at Dealnews.com, sat down and gave a recap of his two presentations.  We have here nearly a full hour of his insights in to PHP/MySQL scalability, both with an app like Phorum and a more complex environment like […]

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Brian Moon’s Blog: PHP/MySQL Meetup.com group for North Alabama

Brian Moon (of dealnews) has officially taken the lead of the local PHP user group for North Alabama:

As of today I have taken over organizing the PHP/MySQL meetup.com group for north Alabama. Anyone willing to drive into town is welcome to come. Our first meetup that I will organize will be Monday, December […]

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