If a word is a variable, then a sentence is an array. A paragraph is an array of sentences, a chapter is an array of paragraphs, a book is an array of chapters, and a library is an array of books. This would look, in php, like this: $library = array ( ‘book1′ => array [...]
Never be at more than ½ capacity If you’re planning a truly highly available system then you have to be aware that a serious percentage of your hardware can be forcefully cut from your organizations torso at any moment. You are also not exempt from this rule on holidays, weekends, or vacations. Loosing power equipment, [...]
It’s commonly held that normalization is a good thing. And it is. But like all good, or more to the point TRUE, things there are circumstances in which the opposite hold true. The “proper” way to layour a database schema is something as ever changing as the tides. Rather like the US justice system we [...]
I’ve just installed a fresh (from the dvd) Fedora Core 5 install. I checked all packages available to me in the installer (except the languages, because I’m monolingual) and “$ yum update” is now downloading 389 updates (thats almost 1GB) So while I still think that the *nix OS’s are *WAY* better than the MS [...]
Who this document is for: People looking to house large MySQL data-sets on Amazon’s EC2 service, and people looking for the best (that I’ve found) all-in-EC2 solution for fault tolerance and data retention. People looking to get maximum availability. Who this document is not for: People who are looking for something EASY. This isn’t it. [...]
Amazons EC2 service is, by all accounts, brillian. But one of the things that it lacks is any sort of assurance regarding data permanence. What I mean is each machine that you turn on has 160GB of storage, but if that server instance is ever shut off the data is *lost* (not corrubted byt GONE) [...]