Errata

Building Scalable Web Sites

Errata for Building Scalable Web Sites

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page xv
Preface; under Using Code Examples heading

**PLEASE MAKE SURE THIS IS CORRECTED IN THE NEXT REPRINT.**

Remove first sentence: "The examples from this book are freely downloadable..."

(There is no accompanying code for this book.)

Anonymous   
Printed
Page 79
1st paragraph

... at the start pf your PHP ...

should be

... at the start of your PHP ...

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 85
1st paragraph

... and somebody has already written for us in the shape of ...

should be

... and somebody has already written it for us in the shape of ...

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 154
2nd para

"A document type definition (DTD) may be included, describing the format of the
document. Hopefully, we already know the format given that we've fetched for
use, but we can use the DTD to check for document validity."

should be

...given that we've fetched it for
use..."

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 155
1st para

"libxml was created in 1990 by Daniel Veillard for the GNOME project [...]"

Date is wrong. Neither XML nor the GNOME project existed in 1990.

1990 should be 1998

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 155
last para

"XML-RPC was designed in 1995 by Dave Winer when [...]"

Date is wrong. Work on what would become XML didn't even begin until 1996 and XML-
RPC's inventor himself cites [1] 1998 as the magical year.

1995 should be 1998

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 169
last para

"If we have a 20 processes that all try to claim [...]"

The "a" should be removed.

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 172
numbered list under "Opcode Caching"

"3. mod_php locates file on disk on loads it into memory."

2nd "on" should be "and"

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 285
last sentence in last para

"[...] losing 1 web server out of 20 isn't a big deal, while losing your MySQL master
server should be paging your DBA immediately."

"should be paging" should be changed to "should have you paging"

 Anonymous