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  Random Thoughts

  08.29.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  No real focus to this post today, just 2 things to talk about. First, I got an email from the fine folx at the Zend Framework team informing me that the proposal Derek and I had done to add a component to the core of the framework to handle talking to Last.FM’s web services has [...]

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  Plugins for vBulletin

  08.25.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  For the stats system I built at work, there is a component that tracks clicks (meaning we track IP addresses who have visited the site) and track “raw clicks” and “unique clicks”. I was trying to think of the easiest way to do it, and a co-worker (who has a ton more experience with vBulletin [...]

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  Quick Hits

  08.22.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Here’s a short list of some of the things I’ve been thinking about Adding in code to the stats system at work to collect raw and unique IP addresses. The twist? I’m creating it as a plugin for vBulletin Doing some rework on my session at php|works by reorganizing the content of the talk. I’ve [...]

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  Socket Servers Redux

  08.18.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  It’s always nice to beat a deadline at work, and I beat one by 2 hours for getting the alpha version of my Sportsticker XML stream parser done. Looking back, I wasted a lot of time on a complicated procedure for parsing the stream when I should’ve kept it simple. Luckily, I set it aside [...]

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  Database Metaprogramming

  08.14.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  In the absence of anything really pressing to talk about, I thought I’d share two tidbits I found via my feed reader. J. Scott Johnson had a great post at his blog about SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS and Faster Count(*) Alternatives. If you’ve ever had to write some code that loops through a database searching for counts that [...]

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