Monthly Archives: June 2007

Google has a huge solar project

I didn’t know that but Google is doing a really good work with solar energy, producing something like 9-10,000 KW/h every day! Check the Google Solar Panel Project. Actually I don’t think solar energy could solve the energy problem but… waiting for someone to invent something better, I say “good work” to Google. Original news

Redundancy in PHP DB drivers

Once upon a time PHP had several different DB drivers such as: mysql pgsql mssql oci sqlite odbc informix firebird Later came mysqli oci8 and we already had duplicated drivers (also if they have some different optimizations/features) Later came PDO and we had pdo_mysql pdo_pgsql pdo_mssql pdo_oci pdo_oci8 pdo_sqlite pdo_odbc pdo_informix pdo_firebird so now we [...]

What is lacking in Zend_DB to make it a full abstraction layer

There are mainly 2 PHP abstraction layers out there: PEAR::MDB2 ADODB I used both for long time within P4A and the conclusion is that none of them is good enough, because of feature lacks, bugs, communication difficulties with the team. I have to say that MDB2 code is much clearer. But there’s something interesting coming [...]

LinuxMCE distro

LinuxMCE is a great media center software built for being installed on a Kubuntu feisty, but reading the download and install instructions it seems to be that it’s all too difficult, why not building a Kubuntu livecd with built-in MCE? Is someone interested in the project? Do someone want to join me to do that? [...]