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First impressions on Google App Engine

April 15th, 2008 by Rich Zygler
tags: Google, MySQL, PHP, Python | 4 Comments »

From the Google site: Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your ...

Delphi for PHP and Mysql development

April 10th, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: MySQL, PHP | No Comments »

On my short list of things to check out soon are Delphi for PHP and Scibit's MyComponents for Mysql.  It looks like Delphi gives you a "visual (RAD) framework for PHP" and MyComponents gives you the glue to Mysql.  It's an interesting concept but I can't quite get my head ...

Handy AJAX data structures using JSON, XML, ADODB, PHP, and Mysql

August 16th, 2006 by Rich Zygler
tags: AJAX, JSON, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, XML | 1 Comment »

I'm working on a project where I thought a little AJAX magic would help the user interface a bit, so I've been adding that functionality piece by piece. For this web site, we've previously standardized on using the ADODB PHP database abstraction library for all our queries. The particular circumstances ...

How to get a C# class to talk to Mysql in under 5 minutes

August 2nd, 2006 by Rich Zygler
tags: .NET, C#, MySQL | No Comments »

I had to access a Mysql database at work today using C# and .NET. Well, I didn't have to... but I wanted to... and I had some down time. I'm mainly a PHP guy, but C# is similar enough to C/C++ that I figured out what I needed ...

The SqlXML class — PHP sql query results in XML via object

November 9th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: MySQL, PHP, XML, XSL | 1 Comment »

For a personal project that I’m working on in PHP4, I’m using XSLT to display a bunch of pages. Most times, I don’t use the XSL transforms for the whole page, usually just tables of data that are returned from a query. The first thing that you need to ...

Personal Disaster Recovery for the Masses

December 21st, 2004 by Rich Zygler
tags: General, MySQL, PHP, Perl | No Comments »

A few people make fun of me because I have a personal disaster recovery plan for my computers, data, and applications that are located in my home. These people aren’t in the IT industry. Those in IT usually nod thoughtfully and muse, “I should do that too.” At ...