Recommended Book : High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More
I got this book a while back after reading the authors blog - MySQL Performance Blog. The book is well written, full of helpful information and not for complete beginniers - which is a nice change!
It has has good sections on benchmarking, profiling, backups, security, as well as MySQL tools.
The last slice of Cake?
The lead developer of CakePHP, Nate Abele, today waved good by to Cake in a quick tweet about the project. Reports are that he is joining some of the Cake team working on a fork of Cake3 to be called “Lithium”.
Nate later confirms;
Yup, myself and most of the old team have spun off a new project called #Lithium (http://li3.rad-dev.org), based on PHP 5.3"
Awesome, another 5.3 framework - I'll be following Lithium's development as it occurs.
Symfony is one of the first major PHP frameworks planning to drop support for 5.2
Symfony 2.0 will leverage PHP 5.3 and drop PHP 5.2 compatibility. Big news - Symfony is one of the first major PHP frameworks to drop support for 5.2, though its not happening for some time.
Both the upcoming Zend Framework and CakePHP 2.0 versions will rely on PHP 5.3. And for Symfony, I said it will still be compatible with PHP 5.2. From my point of view at the time, it would be a mistake to upgrade major frameworks to PHP 5.3 now for one main reason: major frameworks are used by many big companies, and upgrading to the latest version of a software fast in such companies is not always feasible.
Symfony 2.0 is due to be released late 2010. Read some more on the Symfony blog.
New version of Lighttpd released – 1.4.24
- Connection state handling (pipelining should work now)
- FastCGI fixes: improved disabled-time handling, fixed bug in active-backends counter.
- TLS SNI support
You can download it from here, or read the rest of the announcement.
10 Essential Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter
Mashable have a great article on some of the best Entrepreneurs to follow on twitter - read the full article here, or if your lazy, we've made a twitter list for you.
Happy 40th Birthday, Internet!
On October 29, 1969, the first two nodes of ARPANET were interconnected between UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California. It took 12 years for 213 computers to get linked in the network.
Read more at Mashable : http://mashable.com/2009/10/29/happy-40th-birthday-internet/