Category Archives: PlanetMySQL

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db4free.net is back again, with MySQL 5.5

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Markus Popp

Disaster struck again. Well, it’s actually not really a disaster. db4free.net is a testing environment and people are not supposed to use it for any important data, or to use it in production. When after the last server update the … Continue reading →

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How to do user language/locale detection quickly without Zend Framework

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Markus Popp

Recently I wrote about detecting the preferred language or locale of a web site visitor, using Zend Framework. Well, I have to start with one correction. In my last blog post about this topic I talked about the User Agent … Continue reading →

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db4free.net’s 5th birthday

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Markus Popp

To my shame I must admit, I missed it. It happened on June 29, 2005 when db4free.net was first available to the public. At that time it was running MySQL 5.0.7 beta. Quite a lot has happened since then, MySQL … Continue reading →

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How to detect the user’s preferred language – smarter than Google

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Markus Popp

Sometimes I find Google annoying. Don’t get me wrong, I am not one of the many Google haters out there. They have done amazing things and especially since they have released WebM as Open Source and royalty free video format, … Continue reading →

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db4free.net blog has moved and what’s new

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Markus Popp

It was about time to switch to something new. I finally have my new blog launched at www.mpopp.net which is something that I had planned for quite a while. This new blog is a replacement for my old blog at … Continue reading →

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