BSD Community driven certification

BSD has a community driven certification process which inspired this OpenCerti project. They have been working on it for some time, and I think they have put in some tremendous work in. I am currently studying the documents they have prepared and will post my learnings here soon. It’s a hectic week, and I have […]

MySQL Full Text indexing

It’s very easy to mess up your performance when you are using Full Text Index on MySQL. We were working on a system that used full text indices recently. The database had about a million records with long textual data fields. The search was taking around 5 minutes and our job was to optimize this! […]

Yahoo! Open Shortcuts

Shantanu Oak referred me to Yahoo! Open Shortcuts today. He said: You had mentioned about yubnub.org on your blog a while ago. Yahoo has recently introduced open shortcuts concept that is similar to what yubnub is doing for last 6 months. Interesting how Yahoo! is adding features and acquiring businesses! Good for them, good for […]

Article about Zend Certified Engineer

Sys Con has a a very thorough article about the Zend Certified Engineer program. I learnt many good things about the ZCE there, and a few things we can consider for OpenCerti. – One comment said it’s just a single test. So do we need multiple tests? – Another said developers user PEAR etc too. […]