12 August 2011
by nat
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Libcurl is a great library with a whole host of features. In PHP it is accessible with the php_curl extension. Although it’s fully features it has a rather ugly and clumsy api. Added to this php_curl is often not part … Continue reading
1 August 2011
by nat
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One of the joys of Maths is the fact that the names for things sound impressive add to that the fact that the notation can look very off putting if you you don’t know what it says and this has … Continue reading
9 July 2011
by admin
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Earlier in the week i started experimenting with translating infinite series calculations for the value of Π into php. I started with the Chudnovsky brothers algorithm which I understood to be the fastest. As you will see extensive use of … Continue reading
16 June 2011
by nat
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Distro maintainers seem to be a little slow in using mysqlnd. I guess they have their own ideas and needs. The best way I’ve found of installing mysqlnd on ubuntu is to use dpkg to rebuild the .deb. Of course … Continue reading
1 June 2011
by nat
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This is the first post of an series on the MySQL native driver or mysqlnd. In particualr I hope to cover the creation of a mysqlnd plugin both as a C extension to PHP and also as PHP code using … Continue reading