The last version of PHP that came with compiled PECL extensions for Windows was 5.2.6. Some time after that, the usual place to get those was taken offline, and php.net downloads page only says that for newer versions of PHP, 5.2.6 versions of PECL extensions still work. No link…
I felt I was lucky to keep a copy of those extensions around, until I moved to FastCGI and needed non-thread-safe versions. After some searching, I finally discovered that you can download both thread-safe and non-thread-safe versions of PECL dlls from http://museum.php.net/
April 23rd, 2009
Why would London Stock Exchange have a “search the web” as an option on their search page? OK, I may want to search for news or information related to a stock, but there are better, specialized tools for that.
But why would they use GET request for that?
Hey! Maybe I can get a better ranking by linking to a search on third blessing domain. That page will not have any rank initially, but it is on a well established domain…
January 13th, 2009
Ever tried clicking one of those accessibility icons next to “captcha” fields? Here is what I heard when I tried the one on Google’s password-recovery page today:
Captcha from the other side
October 22nd, 2008
I just got these excellent Sennheiser headphones
and I realized they have another feature in addition to great sound quality - they enhance your mood! The cable is kind of short, and if I have them connected to my (docked) laptop, my head gets yanked each time I reach for something. If I am in a good mood, I laugh about it. If not, well, they enhance that as well…
January 25th, 2008
Zen Habits is an excellent productivity-and-lot-more blog by Leo Babauta. Well, maybe you should not use “lot more” when talking about something “zen”, but sometimes less is more. Or more is less? Anyway, he collected his posts about a simplified version (is simple less or more?) of Get Things Done (and more) and you can get it now as an inexpensive e-book.
Click here to view more details
November 30th, 2007
I attended the 2007 DC PHP Conference few weeks ago. Still working on my notes to present what I learned to others at my company, but at least I can post links to all the presentations I found so far:
November 28th, 2007
While helping maintain the New World Encyclopedia, I tried to install the LuceneSearch extension to replace the default MySQL-full-text-based search used by MediaWiki. Since our server did not come with any pre-requisites necessary for compiling and running Java applications, I spent quite some time on it, and still did not get it to work.
All of sudden (hint, hint,) a message came to the mediawiki developers list about a new search extension that uses Sphinx search engine. Installing Sphinx was a breeze! The extension was an initial “request-for-comments” version, so I started working with the author to spruce it up. You can see the results at NWE, MediaWiki.org, and SourceForge.
October 19th, 2007
Just found a site very similar to what I wanted to make for a very long time. Signup at Joe’s Goals and start tracking your daily goals in a simple, fun, and efficient manner. Plus you can make yourself accountable to the world by publishing a little graph on your website.
June 15th, 2007
A snack is something you eat for no reason.
(Nina, 4)
June 7th, 2007
Yesterday, our pastor mentioned that an average couple talks only 4 minutes per day. I tried to find that statistic on the Internet and found even worse numbers - some studies apparently indicate that married couples spend only 6 minutes per week in a serious discussion. I decided to put a stop to that and spent at least an our talking to my wife last night. You do the math - or even better - spend that time talking to your loved ones. Be above average!
May 14th, 2007
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