sphinx search repo is now public

Andrew Askyonoff emailed me to let me know the Sphinx Search repo is now available online. That is great news for developers.

nginx 0.7.x branch is now stable

The 0.7.x version status is changed to stable, since this morning when Igor released 0.7.59 version. The proxy_cache_methods and fastcgi_cache_methods were added. Now you can also cache a POST, great stuff Igor. I will present Nginx and Sphinx at the next Zendcon conference, if I get accepted.

project: chicken

John Bafford sent me a link about a very interesting project codenamed “chicken“. Let me know what you think about it.

pass the joel test

It is an issue we encounter in every corporation, as well onto our daily programming habits: lack of organization and promotion of new working tools. Brandon Savage was kind to send me an interesting blog entry, with a test allowing me to measure how big of a failure I might be.

php|tek 2009: flickr pics

Many of php|tek 2009 conference attendants posted their pictures on Flickr. So far, Chris (aka @spooons) attempted to break the world record of pictures taken (and posted) at a conference…