Saturday, June 28. 2003

With the upcoming release of PHP5 Beta the SQLite database package will come bundled. Partly because I wasn't familiar with the API of SQLite, and partly because I just wanted to, I have developed a module for the session extension which allows you to use sessions and store the data for them in a SQLite database natively (instead of using flat-files or a user-made handler).

To use this module:

• Apply the session.c patch
• Copy mod_sqlite.c and mod_sqlite.h to the ext/session directory
• Set the session.save_handler configuration directive to "sqlite"
• Recompile and enjoy

The database will be created in the directory specified by session.save_path with the filename .db (where is the name of the session as specified by the session.name directive).


If you enjoyed this, or find a bug feel free to Contact me and let me know.

Posted by John Coggeshall at 07:34

Saturday, June 28. 2003

With the upcoming release of PHP5 Beta the SQLite database package will come bundled. Partly because I wasn't familiar with the API of SQLite, and partly because I just wanted to, I have developed a module for the session extension which allows you to use sessions and store the data for them in a SQLite database natively (instead of using flat-files or a user-made handler).

To use this module:

• Apply the session.c patch
• Copy mod_sqlite.c and mod_sqlite.h to the ext/session directory
• Set the session.save_handler configuration directive to "sqlite"
• Recompile and enjoy

The database will be created in the directory specified by session.save_path with the filename .db (where is the name of the session as specified by the session.name directive).


If you enjoyed this, or find a bug feel free to Contact me and let me know.

Posted by John Coggeshall at 07:34

Thursday, June 26. 2003

The other day I was talking to my father about this and that... when I was getting up to come back to work he stopped me and pulled this out of his wallet. He tells me he found it in his father's things, and has absolutely no idea what it is all about. About all he can tell me is that it's probably 50 years old or so.

It seems to be constructed with two business cards glued together.. The address is located in Downtown Chicago, which was apparently a block or two from my Grandfather's office.

Regarding the name "Eight Immortals", the only thing I can find online is references to Chinese Mythology..

The questions I have:

• What's with the "Insert this side up" stuff?
• What was the purpose of this club?
• Judging by the card, there should be at least 400 other people.. who were they?
• Is it still around?

If by some amazing stroke of luck, you are a member or knew about it, or have any thoughts feel free to let me know.

Thursday, June 26. 2003

The other day I was talking to my father about this and that... when I was getting up to come back to work he stopped me and pulled this out of his wallet. He tells me he found it in his father's things, and has absolutely no idea what it is all about. About all he can tell me is that it's probably 50 years old or so.

It seems to be constructed with two business cards glued together.. The address is located in Downtown Chicago, which was apparently a block or two from my Grandfather's office.

Regarding the name "Eight Immortals", the only thing I can find online is references to Chinese Mythology..

The questions I have:

• What's with the "Insert this side up" stuff?
• What was the purpose of this club?
• Judging by the card, there should be at least 400 other people.. who were they?
• Is it still around?

If by some amazing stroke of luck, you are a member or knew about it, or have any thoughts feel free to let me know.

Sunday, June 15. 2003

As I find time I'm trying to put more stuff online that I find interesting and/or useful. Today, I managed to get a new section of the web site online which will be where I stick some more personal items about me. Go ahead and check it out if your interested.. it has my bio, quotes and thoughts I enjoy and more!

Sunday, June 15. 2003

As I find time I'm trying to put more stuff online that I find interesting and/or useful. Today, I managed to get a new section of the web site online which will be where I stick some more personal items about me. Go ahead and check it out if your interested.. it has my bio, quotes and thoughts I enjoy and more!

Wednesday, June 11. 2003

Paul Graham has written an incredibly interesting essay discussing the differences between hackers, computer scientists, and painters.. I'd love to comment on this (which I will when i can find the time), but for now here's the linkHackers and Painters

Wednesday, June 11. 2003

Paul Graham has written an incredibly interesting essay discussing the differences between hackers, computer scientists, and painters.. I'd love to comment on this (which I will when i can find the time), but for now here's the linkHackers and Painters

Tuesday, June 10. 2003

In my travels around the internet today I came across This story on Yahoo!. The basic gist of the story is that there is a 50/50 chance that the human race is going to end up killing itself (Up from 20% chance a hundred years ago).

Flip a coin, we dead yet?

Tuesday, June 10. 2003

In my travels around the internet today I came across This story on Yahoo!. The basic gist of the story is that there is a 50/50 chance that the human race is going to end up killing itself (Up from 20% chance a hundred years ago).

Flip a coin, we dead yet?

Monday, June 9. 2003

I've seen this before on other sites (at least a link to it) but it wasn't until I looked at my referrers than I found this:My Blog's Worth

Apparently, someone has put up a system that assigns a monetary value (like stocks) to your blog! Looking at my current performance it appears that i'm a good investment for quality information..

The internet is just amazing sometimes :)

Monday, June 9. 2003

I've seen this before on other sites (at least a link to it) but it wasn't until I looked at my referrers than I found this:My Blog's Worth

Apparently, someone has put up a system that assigns a monetary value (like stocks) to your blog! Looking at my current performance it appears that i'm a good investment for quality information..

The internet is just amazing sometimes :)

Monday, June 9. 2003

Today I'll be giving a basic PHP/MySQL talk at Kettering University and have posted the slides and code examples from the talk in the Talks section.

Monday, June 9. 2003

Today I'll be giving a basic PHP/MySQL talk at Kettering University and have posted the slides and code examples from the talk in the Talks section.

Friday, June 6. 2003

One of those little details that I hated after switching my primary box from Windows to Linux was problems I had with my SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 card (with the LiveDrive2). The big issue for me was that I like to wear earphones when listening to music while I'm coding, writing, whatever and for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to make it work in Linux. I had normal speaker output just fine, but the earphone jack in my LiveDrive just refused to cooperate.

Unfortunately, there isn't too many resources for those who are trying to get the drivers (emu10k1) working properly... But, thanks to some guys (banshee in particular) in #creative @ Freenode.net I finally figured out how to get my earphones working!

The trick is the emu-dspmgr application which allows you to route sound in and out of different interfaces the card supports.. In my case, it ended up just being as simple as the following:

[user@localhost]# emu-dspmgr -a"Pcm L: Phones L"
[user@localhost]# emu-dspmgr -a"Pcm R: Phones R"

There is a README-TOOLS file in the docs/ dir of the emu10k1 source which lays out all the inputs/outputs you can route.. in this case I'm routing the Pcm channels (which come from things like XMMS, etc) into the Phones output channels..

Hopefully this will be picked up @ google and others will save themselves a lot of headaches.