I should probably post a whole article here, but I don’t have time!  Suffice it to say that PHP needs you to compile ‘–with-zlib’ if you’re trying to also compile curl as well.  http://us2.php.net/curl doesn’t have any reference to that fact from what I saw, so I figured I’d post it here.
When running ‘make’ I [...]

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Got an estimate on the body repair for the sign that fell on my car. Only estimate I got so far was $738. Seems just a bit excessive, so I’m looking for other estimates in the next couple weeks.

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This topic has been on my mind for awhile now.  My current position has me doing about 95% maintenance on existing code.  While I enjoy the challenge, the work is often frustrating.  The optimal solution to any problem is never an option due to time constraints.  This mirrors ‘new development’ as well, because business concerns/timelines/budgets [...]

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I’m doing a small presentation for our local Mysql User Group tonight, and the topic is full text searching.  While doing a bit of research, I came across a few useful sites:

http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/3512461
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000576.html
http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-ferrara1.php

The first one is an in-depth analysis of how the full-text algorithm works - definitely worth reading up on.  The other two give demonstrations [...]

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