Archiv für den Monat February, 2007

A smoldering pile of shit

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Gibt es keine Notebooks mehr, die man noch kaufen kann, wenn Apple nicht in Frage kommt? Der berühmte Hersteller, den jeder Consultant lobt und dessen Geräte beinahe jeder Systemhändler als die führenden empfiehlt, hat keine andere Beschreibung verdient als “a smoldering pile of shit”. Hier ein kurzer Erfahrungsbericht zu von meinen bisherigen, privatem Compaq […]

Future versions of mysqlnd to support PHP 5

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Q: Will future versions of mysqlnd support PHP 5?
A: Yes, future versions of mysqlnd will support PHP 5.

However, currently we focus all our development efforts on implementing core functionality like Unicode support and support for Prepared Statements. The reason is that we do not want to be distracted by differences between PHP 5 and […]

About the performance of mysqlnd-5.0.0-alpha

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

I have written a long, long blog entry How fast is mysqlnd-5.0.0-alpha?.I do not want to spam the Planets with all of it. It’s aimed at PHP and MySQL users that want to hear in detail what we know about the performance of the first alpha release of the MySQL native driver for PHP.

The following […]

How fast is mysqlnd-5.0.0-alpha?

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Imagine you’re approaching the planned release date. It is less than one week to go and you have just stopped doing micro-benchmarks only and started with more realistic benchmarks. As an example of a realistic benchmark, we have followed the decision of the german computer magazine c’t and choosen the Dell DVD Store. Last year […]

MySQL native driver for PHP: mysqlnd-5.0.0-alpha

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Dear Developers,

we are proud to announce the first alpha version of the MySQL native driver for PHP: mysqlnd 5.0.0-alpha. The software is available for download on http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php-mysqlnd.

The MySQL native driver for PHP is an additional, alternative way to connect from PHP 6 to the MySQL Server 4.1 or newer. It is a replacement for libmysql, […]