ironing our pants into the universe

I went to yesterday's Montreal PHP + MySql meet-up. I was the clueless guy up front in the black hoodie and the new haircut.

Speakers: Kaj Arnö, Giuseppe Maxia, Morgan Tocker, and Dups. I ate pizza. We learned about social networking communication strategies, 3rd party patches, and performance improvements in MySQL 5.4 beta. Most importantly I learned that mixing MyISAM and InnoDB in the same database is a bad idea and submitted changes to SVN accordingly. I learned that I should read this book.

The good news is that MySQL is moving forward. The bad news is that no one was up for beers after the talk. I must confess that I find the lack of drinking at a Montréal open source event deplorable. Just kidding, maybe.

Thanks to Sun Microsystems for hosting the event. All in all, highly informative.

Spring is in the air and nerds are in the bar. Spent the day at Codefest 3.0 yesterday (I was the guy wearing the Renoise t-shirt) and managed to churn out 2.0.5. Drum-roll for the changelist:

• A rare infinite redirect problem was fixed
• A bug with the bookmarks menu was fixed
• Log buttons in the user administration menu were added
• The suxNaiveBayesian() destructor is not called unless the user is logged in
• A problem was fixed in which an unapproved feed couldn't be edited
• The CAPTCHA system was migrated from jpGraph to Securimage
• jpGraph removed
• htmLawed was updated to 1.1.8 and TinyMCE was updated to 3.2.3

By removing jpGraph the .zip file sux0r is distributed in was reduced from roughly 8MB to 4MB. I had lofty dreams for jpGraph but spring cleaning got the best of me.

I'd also like to thank Microsoft, the unlikeliest of sponsors, for picking up the tab on the pints that fueled this release. That was pretty cool of them to sponsor Codefest. I will take them up on the IIS offer and hopefully do a sux0r compatibility check in the next few months.

Last day of Codefest is today. See you there?