Sphinx is My Anti-SQL

With all of this talk about NoSQL (which while I think it definitely has its use cases, but believe is quite overblown), I thought I'd mention my own recent experience with overcoming weaknesses of the traditional relational database... Continue Reading

MySQL Backup Script with PHP and S3

Tonight I update my previous script to backup a MySQL database. I am a web developer and not a system administrator, but I have to wear multiple hates and act like a system administrator. But I hate it! So when I go out on Google and look for... Continue Reading

MySQL Hot Backup with PHP

I often Google for code that I want to use, but I don't often find exactly what I want. Usually what I find is too far and beyond what I actually want--something simple. Othertimes it's written in Perl, which I'm sorry but I just have no desire to... Continue Reading