One of the major negatives of using Oracle 10g and PHP to build applications is the obvious lack of connection pooling. Without pooling, frequent connection creation and destruction can be expensive and crippling to high scalability. Oracle's traditional middle-tier connection pools were not applicable to the multi-process PHP architecture. Caching connections within PHP removed connection creation and destruction costs but did not achieve optimal connection resource... [more]

Looks like another company is joining in the fight to unseat the top two web browsers. Others have come before, all have failed. See Flock, Avant, and Opera. Now comes Pogo, by AT&T (a very unlikely development powerhouse). Many people will be turned off... [more]

I don't know who let the geeks into the marketing department, but an ubernerd had to be responsible for tacking "Veloci" onto Western Digital's Raptor line of hard drives. Western Digital picked an extremely appropriate name for its new 10,000 rpm (rotations per minute) hard drive. Dubbed the VelociRaptor, this new drive, introduced today... [read more] The new drive brings the previously... [more]

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Ritesh Agrawal aka "ragrawal" built a really nice Social Bookmarklet helper for CakePHP 1.2. It allows for the easy creation of "Share This" type links. I found that the location of the icons needed to be corrected to use CakePHP's IMAGES_URL constant. I also changed the html wrapper element from a div to li allowing better easier use with [more]

Best Buy sent me an amazing letter today. We got a Toshiba HD-A3 along with our HDTV over the Christmas season. At the time, nobody knew which high definition DVD medium would be the winner of the DVD 2.0 race. I decided, at the time, that if we were to purchase a next-gen gaming system, it would be an [more]

These jokers have ridiculously mad skills. [more]

We recently installed memcached on a couple servers. As we begin to scale up our use of CakePHP, we quickly saw a need for some type of caching solution so that every page request wasn't running the full load of queries to render a page. memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database... [more]

After getting a DNLA error 2006 on our Playstation 3 with newly updated firmware, I hit the interweb to determine if I could find a solution. When we initially setup the PS3 it had no issues locating the shared folders on our Windows Home Server and we were up and running with streaming video across our network from the... [more]