Paul Jones was so gracious as to mention my name in a presentation he gave in Atlanta, a couple of my coworkers where there but I wasn't able to make it, instead I am going to the ZendCon.

Anyway since it was about benchmarking it made me think back to my orignal tests where the Zend Framework came out around 18% the performance of a plain html and Paul claimed Solar was 4 times faster then ZF.

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ZDNets "Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6207936.html?tag=nl.e539

DSL Reports on the ZFNet article, some of there comments are just down right funny.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Are-Ad-Blockers-Illegal-87575

There are a lot of comments about how

• "Its my browser I have the right"
• "I pay for my broadband connection I don't want to waste it with ads"

Got an email of something interested in my original xajax_jquery_plugin. This little demo was something I threw together but never got a lot of interest in and I have gone to using jquery directly more.

The other day someone asked me about getting it working with the latest versions of xajax and jquery so here we go xajax_jquery_plugin2

You need a snapshot of your database to restore replication but you want to reduce your downtime what can do you?

Backing up gigs of data can take a few minutes, minutes your database is down because you wanted to ensure you get a perfect copy.

This tip can be summed up in 2 works "room temperature". If you throw a steak directly from the fridge to the grill you will have a hard time getting a real nice char on the outside and a nice warm pink center.

Instead you will end up having to overcook the outside to get the inside cooked to a safe temperature.

If your developing a new website and want to ensure its scalable sessions can be a sticking point. Since PHP sessions by default are local only you decide to use the session handlers to build your own database driven sessions.

There are a couple problems you may run into with this approach and most database driven examples you may use to base your session code off.

These problems can pretty much be summarized into a single sentence.

Every single page load your database is going to be hit at least 2 times, first to read the session data and then session to rewrite all that data.

Just booked everything for this and am ready to go. Had a lot of fun, learned a lot and look forward to the same this year.

Anyone going interested in the Zend Framework testing server and would like an account or have questions send me an email and I will answer your questions in person

Listen guys "Akismet + Drupal" = Go away!! I get the same damn spam comments every single data.

If your using Drupal and have a problem with spam download the Akismet module its worth its virtual weight in virtual gold!

Been a bit busy with work and family that haven't had time to post any updates recently but there has been some work going on.

FlashUnity is being redone from the ground up, the original was simply a basic recoding of cyberss, and I was still learning my way around classes, for 2 I am using tricks and knowledge I have gained from working with the Zend Framework to make extending and handling a lot easier.

The latest jQPie has been released, you can download it http://projects.cyberlot.net/trac/jqpie/wiki/WikiStart.

The main thing in this release is the addition of an auto complete and a grid example based of the extjs library, One thing to keep in mind the css files provided by extjs will overrun pretty much any css you have, the main one being ext-all.css, It seems some things are set in here that are required for the examples to work but at the same time it styles pretty much every element in existence.