You guessed. I'm desperately looking for decent PHP Coders in Vienna, Austria.

The job posting (in german) can be found here:
http://www.inqnet.at/job09.html

Just ping me if you're interested in an face-to-face interview.

Just a quick info, because I forget this again and again--and it's not noted in the documentation yet either.

Sub-second timeouts are supported by libcurl and thus by pecl_http--yes but only if libcurl is built with (c-)ares support:

<quote url="curl_easy_setopt.html">

If libcurl is built to use the standard system name resolver, that portion of the transfer will still use full-second resolution for timeouts with a minimum timeout allowed of one second.

</quote>

...but somehow managed to not get through, so here's my attempt:

awk -v RS="[\n ,]+" '{print}' < u.txt 

See http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/17/regex-challenge/

This tiny program lists all users of a domain with a maildir quota usage above 90%.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>

#include <pwd.h>
#include <errno.h>

#include <vpopmail.h>
#include <vauth.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    struct vqpasswd *user;
    char dir[1024];
    uid_t uid;
    gid_t gid;
    int offset_counter = -1, sort = 1, usage;

    if (argc != 2) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <domain>\n", argv[0]);
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    if (vget_assign(argv[1], NULL, 0, &uid, &gid) == NULL) {
        fprintf(stderr, "domain '%s' does not exist\n", argv[1]);
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    if (setgid(gid) || setuid(uid)) {
        fprintf(stderr, "could not setuid/setgid to %d:%d\n", uid, gid);
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

    while (NULL != (user = vauth_getall(argv[1], !++offset_counter, sort))) {
        if (strcmp(user->pw_shell, "NOQUOTA")) {
            snprintf(dir, sizeof(dir), "%s/Maildir", user->pw_dir);
            usage = vmaildir_readquota(dir, 
                format_maildirquota(user->pw_shell));

            if (usage >= 90) {
                printf("%s %s %d\n", user->pw_name, user->pw_shell, usage);
            }
        }
    }

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Here's how my qmail-queue script looks like to selectively check messages with SpamAssassin for non-relay clients only:

#!/bin/sh
(if [ -n "${RELAYCLIENT+1}" -o `id -u` != 64011 ]; \
    then cat -; \
    else /usr/bin/spamc -x -U /var/run/spamd/spamd.sock; \
fi) | /usr/sbin/qmail-queue.orig

For the records.

So, finally a first beta of pecl_http 1.6 has been released.

This is the first version which supports libcurls multi socket API introduced in 7.16 through libevent.

Here's a not very impressive comparison of the performance of the traditional multi API vs. the new multi socket API:

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php \
    -u http://honeybadger/empty.html

>   1.134667s

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php \
    -u http://honeybadger/empty.html

>   1.151088s

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php \
    -u http://honeybadger/empty.html

>   1.131867s

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php \
    -u http://honeybadger/empty.html -e

>   0.993878s

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php \
    -u http://honeybadger/empty.html -e

>   0.998832s

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php \
    -u http://honeybadger/empty.html -e

>   0.997121s

Above empty.html is, well, empty. The following test requests a 100k file:

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli  \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php  \
    -u http://honeybadger/100k.bin

>   2.205190s

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli  \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php  \
    -u http://honeybadger/100k.bin

>   2.210525s

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli  \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php  \
    -u http://honeybadger/100k.bin

>   2.254281s

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli  \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php  \
    -u http://honeybadger/100k.bin -e

>   2.007220s

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli  \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php  \
    -u http://honeybadger/100k.bin -e

>   1.945564s

mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli  \
    ~/cvs/pecl/http/scripts/bench_select_vs_event.php  \
    -u http://honeybadger/100k.bin -e

>   1.969575s

So, apparently time savings are not huge, but noticable.

Well, it's this time in one's life, you know...

I'm single again, and I'm looking for a radical change in my life.

I'm going to abandon being self-employed and looking for a PHP/HTTP/CURL related job.

Some info about me, even in german.

It's been more than 3 months that I brought back to mind, what was happening in my PHP/HTTP/CURL world, so here we go.

February:

pecl/http with support for persistent handles has been released.

A proposal of mine at internals to change the behaviour of read_property/write_property and get_property_ptr_ptr object handlers has successfully been ignored.

The idea was the following:

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Wouldn't it be reasonable for the engine to use get_property_ptr_ptr() whenever it wants to modify a property and get rid of using read_property() for write access?

That would make rather simple ops like concatenation, in-/decrementation etc work again with overloaded internal classes. Just make the engine use read_property() followed by a write_property() when there's no get_property_ptr_ptr().

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Nobody was interested.

March:

I added a comparison object handler to the DateTime class, which means that comparisons of DateTime objects should work in recent PHP5 versions.

I started development of pecl/libetpan, but dropped it again because of pretty huge differences between how the library works and how PHP is supposed to work. What a pity.

A less fine guy, some Omid, wanted me to write a PHP extension which calculates the strength of "poker hands", but he jumped off when I had done the algos.

April:

A fine guy, pretending his name was Andreas Weber, noticed that pecl/http's request method implementation was completely b0rked. Thanks to his report it was fixed in 1.5.3.

All fame Lukas Smith, queried me about what might have changed with my new output layer implementation for PHP6, but I noticed too late that it's been for a conference talk he was preparing, so I feel like I didn't spend enough attention to his questions. Sorry Lukas.

I started to implement libcurl's new multi_socket AKA hiper API in conjunction with libevent, but stumbled across a few problems.

May:

My journey with libcurl's multi_socket API continues, which eventually causes the delay of a first pecl/http 1.6 release candidate.

I tried Drupal for the first time.

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Well, that'd be it. If it reads like an extrusion of junk, it probably was.

Yes, this gonna be my wishlist placeholder.

Thank you.