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Thursday, May 15. 2008

Data Migration Podcast

I'm the guest on this week's php|abstract podcast from DevZone, talking about some techniques for importing and migrating data. I have a few pet strategies for dealing with this and they're outlined on the podcast so dip in and let me know what you think.

There will also be a follow-up article to go with it - showing some code examples, because sometimes its easier to think of things when they are written down.
Posted by LornaJane in php at 16:15 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I’ve got 5000 pages of unstructured HTML to migrate, can you help? ;-)

#1 Mike Nolan (Homepage) on 2008-05-15 17:29 (Reply)

Mike: For a reasonable fee, I’m sure I can!! Actually if you haven’t heard it already then listen to Matt’s php|abstract episode – about parsing messy HTML and doing something with it. Its aimed at screen scraping but I’d probably use the same approach if I was going to get into a project like this.

#2 LornaJane (Homepage) on 2008-05-15 17:35 (Reply)

Thanks Lorna and dotjay, that’s useful.

#2.1 Mike Nolan (Homepage) on 2008-05-20 15:20 (Reply)

"Matt’s php|abstract on Screen Scraping":http://devzone.zend.com/article/2631-PHP-Abstract-Episode-22-Screen-Scraping.

#3 dotjay (Homepage) on 2008-05-16 15:56 (Reply)

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Sree about GeekSpeakr
Fri, 04.07.2008 07:06
This is a good place to know about more & more women speaker s: hers i am: http://geekspeakr.com/speaker/sree


LornaJane about A Turtle and a Giant Baby Blanket
Wed, 02.07.2008 22:10
LinuxJedi: I have a niece to knit for, no need to go to the great lengths of breeding grandchildren :)


LinuxJedi about A Turtle and a Giant Baby Blanket
Wed, 02.07.2008 19:58
Awww….That is really cute. Your stuff just gets better an d better :) Although I have visions of you in a rocking c hair in 60 years time knitting away embarrassing clothes for all you grandkids :)


Ken Guest about Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
Wed, 02.07.2008 14:28
Lorna, If you’re getting into hooks and coding standards yo u might want to have a look at triggering Greg Sherwood’s ph p codesniffer when somebody attempts to check in changes. http://url.ie/hq6 is a redirect to his blog posting about d oing this.


LornaJane about Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
Wed, 02.07.2008 13:16
Geoff: For line-endings the SVN property is really useful, but for more complex requirements, like the ones Ken mention ed, a hook is more functional I think. I must admit to usua lly specifying whitespace and line endings in coding standar ds and then shouting at people that do it wrong … it [...]


Geoff about Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
Wed, 02.07.2008 12:57
Have you tried using the svn:eol-style property? This seems more appropriate than using pre-commit hooks.


LornaJane about Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
Wed, 02.07.2008 12:11
Ken: Hello, thanks for dropping by and upstaging me with suc h an excellent tip :) I’ve also seen some nice pre-commit h ooks for SVN that cleans up this kind of badness before the files go near the repo.


Ken Guest about Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
Wed, 02.07.2008 01:23
Hi Lorna. Cool tip but I think I can go one better! I ha ve the following line in my ~/.vim/ftplugin/php.vim file autocmd BufWritePre *.php :%s/\s\+$//e This removes all t railing spaces in a .php file prior to writing it to disk an d means I can concentrate on work rather that using ma [...]


LornaJane about PHP5 Soap Server
Tue, 01.07.2008 22:09
Nik: I can’t imagine what a wsdl would look like pasted into here so I’ve put it in a separate file for you, I’ve includ ed another example soap function so you can see the wsdl wit h two functions and I hope this will give you the help you n eed. The wsdl is at http://web.lornajane.net/sugar_so [...]