marcus welz

I've tested SQLite and came to the conclusion that it is a very awesome SQL implemention, especially for applications on embedded devices. It's working rather well for web-based projects, too. One thing that concerns me a bit, though, is the database-level locking mechanism. Transactions will probably help with performance but for projects with many concurrent […]

I installed Apache2 along with PHP5 on my laptop. Right away I ran into the problem that the "Apache2" service was not registered. Something else was using up port 80. With the help of netstat -lao and a process monitor that actually shows the process IDs I figured out that Skype was the issue. Skype […]

Ben Reser sent word to the mailing list that Subversion 1.1 was just released. It contains many small bug fixes, and a few new features. The biggest one is "Non-database repositories":
It's now possible to create repositories that don't use a BerkeleyDB database. Instead, these new repositories store data in the ordinary filesystem. Because Subversion developers […]

Since installing it I've been playing with PHP5, read the online docs, looked for articles, and found out that PHP5's native SOAP support apparently does not include a WSDL generator. Their justification is that PHP's loosely-typed nature doesn't easily allow for such a feature. On the other hand NuSOAP is doing a pretty good job […]

Finally, I've been eyeing PHP5 ever since RC1. They've added some really nice features. I'm particularly interested in the native SOAP support. And, perhaps more urgently the support for Exceptions. This should provide us with a more robust way of catching and handling errors because the current implementation just has got to go. All the […]