Archive for July, 2007

Killing The Certification Debate

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

There have been a number of people discussing when,how, and if certifications should play a more integral role in the software development industry. The problem is that candidates and employers have disimilar goals. A candidate wants exclusivity while an employer wants a pool of competent potential candidates to choose from.
If we look at the […]

Unbuffered result sets in MySQL? I must have been last to know…

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Peter Zaitsev over at MySQL Performance Blog has a post entitled PHP Large Result Sets and Summary Tables. This post completely caught me by surprise because (embarrassingly enough) I had no idea you could use unbuffered result sets with mysql and mysqli.
Tags: mysql, mysqli, php