I was doing some work integrating with a payment gateway in a PHP application, and decided it would be a good idea to validate credit card numbers using a Luhn Algorithm formula prior to forwarding them to the payment gateway for processing. I looked for existing PHP ones, and found a few. The more I [...]

Today Drizzle enters BETA. Drizzle is an evolution of MySQL that’s been simplified, streamlined, and modernized. This long awaited database started from an idea in 2005 to fork MySQL, keep the good parts, and rip out or replace all the stuff that’s not good for web applications. This idea has been endorsed by large corporate [...]

Soon, the OpenStack Object Storage software will be released. It’s available now as a Developer Preview if you would like to contribute, or perhaps if you’re just curious. The first release is expected later this month. This is a fantastic piece of software that really hits the mark for scalability, high availability, and performance. About [...]