I had been toying with the idea of moving my hosted emails off the Dreamhost servers and into the hands of Google. My main reason was that I was in fact using IMAP for all my emails and as great as it was, both squirrelmail and roundcube weren’t the best web […]
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2011 Atlanta REALStudio Conference
Writing this WAY after it actually happened: The conference this year was at Atlanta. It was hosted by both the Association of REALbasic Professionals and REAL Software. Great location next to the Airport. There was a call for speakers and I was jokingly entered, and ended up speaking about Serial […]
Sybase ASE 15.5 Like Operator Issue
We migrated several databases across from ASE 15.0.2 to a new sybase server over the weekend. All went well until this morning when we found out that the like operator wasn’t behaving as expected. Instead of the percent/mod operator representing this definition: “Matches any string of zero or more characters.”; […]
PHP truncating Sybase varchar results to 255 character limit
Just re-encountered this issue. If you have a table where there is an attribute of type varchar(2000) for instance (really just anything greater than 255), when you pull it out using sybase_connect, it will only return 255 characters. This is outlined as a bug on php.net. To get around this […]
Compiling PHP with Sybase on Solaris
I’m currently setting up a new server to play with and apart from the usual nightmare of compiling everything and finding all their dependencies and what not, I did hit an issue which I couldn’t find a clear answer online for. I used the following to configure PHP 5.3.2: ./configure […]