I’ve been writing a wrapper for Cherokee’s MySQL load balancer to transparently replace PHP’s MySQL functions and provide connection pooling and database balancing at absolutely no cost. And I encountered a problem wanting to override those built-in functions. It looks like the override_function() has a bug that prevents from using it to override two or [...]

You know those times when you stumble upon a good idea and think it is plain genius? Alvaro told me about it this morning and I just had to share it with everybody. This is what you will find if you visit http://apache-es.org, a community in Spanish built to talk about Apache and system administration. [...]

Yesterday we reached yet another milestone in Cherokee’s development towards World Domination. After almost a month of hard work, our newest creation hit the streets. The official anouncement hasn’t even been made yet, but Cherokee 0.11.1 is out in the wild. Besides our regular bug fixes and performance enhancements, it is shipped with some new [...]

This weekend I had a little accident with the mountain bike. A truck came out of nowhere in the middle of the mountain -like they always do-, I got surprised, fell and took the hit with my bare hands. I’ll be spending some days with raw-flesh-style palms.  What can I say? I’m a fashion victim. [...]

But it is not omnipotent. Leave that to Q. I stumbled upon this funny answer from back in 2005 and I had to share it. That guy is a genius! ;-) I’m curious how I can make Python print text in color. That depends strictly on your printer. With my hp LaserJet 1200, no way [...]

I posted a note about this at Cherokee’s main site, but I totally forgot to tell you over here. My bad. However, it’s never late to share good news. A couple of days ago Cherokee’s family incorporated a Polish Cherokee Community as new member! And they took a huge leap forward by creating Cherokee Polska, [...]