The drupal site has a page on tuning server performance. While a few of the tips are specific to Drupal, the majority of them apply to anyone who’s using a LAMP server. Understanding LAMP performance. This LAMP performance study revealed that Apache is bandwidth limited, PHP is CPU limited, and MySQL is memory limited and […]
D’oh, I had a huge post about my further experiences with Google Calendar but my dog ate it because my session timed out (yes its a bug I should fix, but generally I dont’ write very long posts). The summary, I like Google Calendar. I imported my ics file from Mozilla Sunbird with only
Jeremy Zawodny steps up to the plate in defense of Web Developers, once again. Writing a good application no matter waht is going to be demanding, it’s just easier to roll something/anything out using php+javascript than with a "real" programming language. In effect, what I see is that php / javascript programming has a much
Subversion is a great replacement for CVS and a very productive tool for managing code. I began using it last year to track my changes and apply them across my sites. The New Yorg PHP group has a really informative and extensive presentation on using SVN, from setting it up to practical tips for using
The script below does the same and only depends on mutt (or another command line email client) being installed. A better solution would be not to email the file but to setup ssh key authentication on another server and use scp (secure copy) to send the file over. That way, your database file is transferred
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It is actually a bit of a story, and it began with upgrading my installation of gallery from version 1 to version 2. Gone in version 2, at the time, was syndication via rss of pictures. That’s originally how I had the pictures published to the right side of my blog. There’s an RSS plugin
The offending line causes errors to log to a file, which is great, but if you are not rotating the logfile, eventually you’ll hit the max file size limit. Now, this file size is pretty big, but if you have all errors being logged (E_ALL | E_STRICT), you can reach that faster than you would
This is a great read on the history and role of FastCGI given the rise and popularity of “CGI Frameworks”, as the author calls them, like Rails, Django, and Zope. One of those rare entries where I learn a lot from each paragraph. Why does this matter? Because these are large frameworks written in interpreted
If you don’t have access to cron on your server, but you want to run some php code periodically, this is a handy way of doing that using output caching and the date function. This assumes you’ll be using PEAR’s Cache module. Here’s the code, and and explanation. require_once( ‘Cache/Output.php’ );$cache = new Cache_output(‘file’, array(‘cache_dir’=>CACHE_DIR));$cache_id