marcus welz

Earlier today while reading through the Zend Framework 1.6 RC1 release notes I've come across an interesting bug that has been fixed: [ZF-3382] Zend_Cache_Backend_File problems under very high load. There are a lot of things to say about this issue. The obvious ones first: 1. Under typical operation such as opening, locking, reading/writing, and then […]

I use Phing to deploy my projects, and as they become more complex I expand on my use of Phing tasks. For instance, I have a ZIP archive of zip codes that Phing extracts and then imports into a database when deploying the application. I maintain two development environments. One on a Linux server, and […]

I've never used a BlackBerry. Yet, I was tasked with debugging a web site that apparently had some issues with the BlackBerry. This rather outdated site was using frames, which is the first hint that there may be problems. However, according to the BlackBerry Developer's Guide (PDF) frames aren't an issue. They're simply processed and […]

This is a follow-up to my Ubuntu post from a few days ago. I've tried out the final version of 8.04 LTS on my Sony VAIO laptop, and found that it didn't boot. Instead, after the Loading Kernel process bar reaches 100%, the only thing that appears on screen is: [ 42.947514] ACPI: EC: acpi_ec_wait […]

It's getting interesting. Computerworld and ZDNet report a Gartner analyst claiming that "Windows is 'collapsing'". Computerworld is also talking about Ubuntu breathing new life into old hardware. With that said, The Ubuntu 8.04 release is imminent, and I'm very much looking forward to it. I've been a Ubuntu user on and off pretty much since […]