Notes on Dutch PHP Conference 2010
Here the notes I took during the Dutch PHP conference 2010 (#dpc10). They're not a representative summary of the event's highlights cause I could only attend 1 of 4 talks at any given time.
Analyze HTTP Requests With TShark
When you're debugging a tough problem you sometimes need to analyze the HTTP traffic flowing between your machine and a webserver or proxy. Sometimes you can use firebug or chrome inspector for that. But here's a lowlevel alternative that I'm...
Convert All Tables to InnoDB
Some time ago I was in the situation where I was looking at 200 MyISAM tables screaming to get converted to InnoDB for performance reasons. You probably know that MyISAM is better at full-text searches and such, but what I...
Redis PHP Introduction
Don't know Redis? Think Memcache, with support for for lists, and disk-based storage. You can use Redis as a database, queue, cache server or all of those combined. Let's see how you can use this power in your PHP apps....
Access MySQL Without Password
If you want to do command-line MySQL administration like restoring databases or dumping statistics, you need the root account and it's password. Or do you?