Day in brief

  • I favorited a YouTube video — Banned Commercial – Condoms http://bit.ly/zMekB #
  • "Building configurable PHP applications" talk for me (forum2). #ipc09 #
  • webgrind – xdebug front-end in php – http://code.google.com/p/webgrind/ #
  • Prioritize. Everything is important = bad. Everything is, but something is more important than something else. #ipc09 #
  • Define defcon levels for you app (normal,planned/unplanned trafic event,component/site down,etc). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON #ipc09 #
  • "Every time you create a stupid meme, God kills a kitten. Think of the kittens" Tom Melendez talk #ipc09 #
  • You seriously need to check Tom Melendez slides. They have most of the presentation, not just pointers. #ipc09 #
  • Selenium – web application testing system – http://seleniumhq.org/ #ipc09 #
  • MySQL indexing session for me in the clubraum. #ipc09 #
  • MySQL indexes : column index, concatenated index, covering index, partial index, clustered / non-clustered index. #ipc09 #
  • Clustered indexes, i.e sorted – MyISAM is non-clustered, InnoDB is clustered. I need a book or something. #ipc09 #
  • Hash indexes are good for equality searches. Not good for index searches. B-Tree for range searches. #ipc09 #
  • Fulltext indexes for TEXT, CHAR, VARCHAR are only in MyISAM.Case insensitive. ft_min_word_len/ft_max_word_len control word legnth #ipc09 #
  • ft_stopword_file can be used to ignore words for index. Words in at least 50% of rows are ignored by default.Good for large data sets.#ipc09 #
  • Use EXPLAIN to study query execution plan. Look for possible_keys, keys, and key_len to understand index usage. #ipc09 #
  • Selectivity above 15% is a good index. Don't index on gender, as it has bad selectivity. #ipc09 #
  • RT @tswicegood:Code Igniter looks a lot like the framework that people end up writing if they want to learn how to write a framework. #ipc09 #
  • Assign tables to caches and preload indexes for maximum efficiency. LOAD INDEX INTO CACHE. #ipc09 #
  • I'll also need the slides from this MySQL indexing talk. Lots of priceless goodies in there – tips, commands, pointers, etc. #ipc09 #
  • There is a configuration option for MySQL that will log all queries which don't use indexes. Awesome! #ipc09 #
  • Listening to keynote by the guy from Opera. Live demo stuff he shows is uber sexy. (HTML5 stuff) #ipc09 #
  • Forms: autofocus, required fields, datalists, dates, ranges, email / url fields, etc. – all native in the browser (no JS/Flash/etc). #ipc09 #
  • This stuff is so good – can someone fast-forward my life for about 5 years down the road? oktnxbye #ipc09 #
  • video and canvas elements with opacity, etc on low-level devices that don't run Java/Flash/Silverlight … sign me in! :) #ipc09 #
  • Had some lunch and now back at the hotel for a short break. Also, recharging batteries. Next talk in half an hour. #ipc09 #
  • Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal – http://www.skytopia.com/projec…..ml#renders #
  • Fedora 12 is starting to appear on some mirrors. I am busy with the conference, so won't upgrade today. But you – you shouldn't wait! :) #
  • Fedora 12 is making its way into torrents as well. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/ #
  • Congratulations to @TheNextWeb who just passed 250,000 followers! Good job, guys! #
  • Flickr is 404-ing a lot of pages for me. Like medium-sized search results and group pages. Weird. #
  • Code Smells in PDF – http://industriallogic.com/pap…..orings.pdf #ipc09 #
  • Refactoring : learn to go in baby steps. It's faster to go slower. #ipc09 #
  • Refactoring "bible" recommended http://www.amazon.com/Refactor…..0201485672 #ipc09 #
  • Refactoring "another bible" http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Co…..132350882/ #ipc09 #
  • Achieve more with less code – last session for today. Wifi is dead for me. Twittering from phone now. #ipc09 #
  • Tidy (as HTML Tidy) has PHP API. So you can either use it to generate valid pages or run automated tests against your output. #ipc09 #
  • Has anyone seen Tidy integrated with any of the PHP frameworks, like CakePHP and such? #ipc09 #
  • IMHO, you should be careful with using URLs in file_get_contents, since it can be disallowed in PHP configuration. #ipc09 #
  • I did a search for #ipc09 on Flickr. There are like 5 pictures from our conference and 50 from another one with the same tag. I must wait. #
  • Downloading Fedora 12 via preupgrade. Yey! That's gonna be an interesting night. Going down to the bar. :) #
  • Are any of the #ipc09 people coming to the Novotel's hotel bar tonight? Come over (or down) and we'll have a pint. #

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