Earlier I talked about how I’m writing my own abstraction layer for databases - one that has a pdo-like api but also abstracts out things like sql differences, limits, sequences, et al. Well, I’d been watching the development of mdb2 in pear and decided not to go that way…wow it’s big. But one […]

I love fanfiction. Love it a lot. I think that companies should gather up the best stuff and publish it, it’s that good. Sometimes better than the originals. Star Trek should hire some writers off the web, their last scripts have stunk. But there’s one think I HATE about fanfiction. […]

So I haven’t been doing much writing, even after vowing to make an hour a day in time for it. I’m not exactly sure why, but I seem to be constantly running around like a chicken with my head cut off lately. Maybe I just don’t have enough time in my day. […]

So I’m working on a php db abstraction layer for pff - yeah yeah, everybody writes them I know. The three biggies are adodb, pear-db, and metabase/mdb/mdb2. And they suck.
Normally I’m not really nasty about other people’s php… The nifty thing about php is a single problem can be solved a hundred […]

I’ve been playing a bit with PDO That’s the new database …. well I’d guess you’d call it api abstraction extension(s) that’re supposedly coming with php 5.1. The idea behind it is a good one, to change database api calls so they’re all the same, making db abstraction a heck of a lot […]