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I was initially a little unclear about how to connect my Lithium application to my MongoDB replica set while specifying multiple serves, I’ve settled with: Connections::add('default', array( 'type' => 'MongoDb', 'host' => 'localhost:12345,washington.mongo:12345', 'replicaSet' => true, 'database' => 'wiu' ));I’m listing multiple servers that form my replica set in the
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As we’ve been extending the API for our site monitoring and diagnostic tool, Where’s it Up, one of my key concerns was the single point of failure our Washington server represented. Luckily, MongoDB was explicitly designed to make this sort of thing easy.For Where’s it Up, we’re planning on launching with two main servers in different data centres, one in Washington, the other in San Antonio. We’
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On Monday of this week, Amazon’s EC2 service suffered a major outage, which they call “performance issues”, which we all know is simply not true.This is not a post about how Amazon has failed us. Everyone goes down. We use AWS because it’s flexible, and we need the flexibility. This is a post about how Gimme Bar went down due to this outage, despite our intentions of making everything resilient t
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WordPress is already a great piece of software and if you use these great WordPress plugins, is your system is almost ready for production. After your WordPress website is finished, you should do some optimizations on the html source code and you have to manipulate the basic behavior of a few features. The following list [...]
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If you’re running this code in Lithium, it’s not doing what you think it’s doing:$count = Results::find(’all’, array(’conditions’ => array(’fruit’ => ‘apples’)))->count();This is a really easy line of code to end up writing, especially if you’ve been reading the MongoDB docs a bunch, or are just porting some code into the application. That’s because if you were accessing the MongoDB driver direct
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A common problem in software development, is that you need data to work with. This is especially true with data-oriented websites. Working with an empty database leads to all sorts of unexpected problems cropping up once the site goes live and receives real world data. Performance issues, visual bugs due to missing fields, too long or too small texts, etc.The best way to address this is to have f
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Managing Pull Requests for the MongoDB PHP driver London, UK Monday, October 29th 2012, 09:22 GMT The MongoDB PHP Driver is hosted as an Open Source project through GitHub. Everybody can check-out the repository and provide patches to this. In order to make things easier to manage, even Hannes, Jeremy and me, the maintainers of the extension will
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Over the last few days I’ve finally fixed a data enumeration bug that was haunting a new feature in Shazzer. Originally Shazzer just mutated one character at a time to discover characters which influenced the fuzz vectors in interesting ways. I decided to expand that to include data. I called the feature “datasets” because you could assign a placeholder to a set of data. Using this placeholder it
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Heise and the university of Berlin just announced the next iteration of the Plat_Forms programming contest. This time, the task all teams need to implement will be more "cloudy", not that frontend-heavy. Hopefully, PHP will perform better than in 2011 this time. If you have a team of 3 PHP developers and if you think you can compete with Ruby and Java: registration is open!
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It's time for something big: Qafoo goes JavaScript and from now on provides expert consulting, training and engineering for the full stack of your web application. We warmly welcome Jakob Westhoff, a well-known expert for PHP and JavaScript, in our team.
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New cool features available in the next release of PHP (PHP5.4)
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