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Archive for August, 2008

Zend Framework 1.6 RC2 and FirePHP

After I had upgraded from Firebug 1.2.0b7 to 1.2.0b15, my web apps were no longer throwing any kind of logs into the Firebug console. I'm using the Zend_Log_Writer_Firebug class for that.
Luckily, just earlier today I noticed a new release of Firebug 1.2.0. And with that, FirePHP 0.1.1.2. But now there was a new problem:
["There was […]

Spokeo is kind of Scaryo

Evidently 2008 is the year of the aggregators. They're everywhere. Socialthing, ping.fm, and what have you. But here's one with an immedialy obvious business model. Introducing Spokeo. An aggregator that asks you to provide your AOL, Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo email credentials (which, in my opinion isn't the safest way to share contacts and I […]

I bought a new Headset

For the longest time I've used the Plantronics .Audio 70 "Behind-the-headset". It's lightweight, has clear sound, and has an almost 10 foot long cord. And perhaps that's part of the problem. I keep rolling over it with my chair every so often, and eventually, after 6 months of use or so, the chord will short […]

Zend Framework and File Locking Pitfalls

Earlier today while reading through the Zend Framework 1.6 RC1 release notes I've come across an interesting bug that has been fixed: [ZF-3382] Zend_Cache_Backend_File problems under very high load.
There are a lot of things to say about this issue. The obvious ones first:
1. Under typical operation such as opening, locking, reading/writing, and then closing a […]