By epb on December 26, 2007
Theoretically, PHP-CGI processes on security level 1 sites should be faster now. I’ve put PHP in a tmpfs file system. It loads from RAM/Virtual Memory instead of from the hard drive, so page loads should come a couple milliseconds faster. I’ve also compressed the executables so they take up less of this tmpfs system.
Posted in Server Software
By epb on December 12, 2007
I have been hard at ‘work’ over the past 3 hours installing AWStats onto the server and realized a fatal flaw in my logging: All things get logged to a single monolithic log. Also Hypertext Preprocessor runs amok.
Posted in Server Software
By epb on August 27, 2007
I decided to try out the Google Maps API today and see what all I could do. It’s surprisingly easy to learn how to use the Maps API. Within about an hour I had got it set up and added a custom marker on the map to show where I guessed the Kitsap Regional Library [...]
Posted in JavaScript
By epb on August 14, 2007
I decided that I wanted to learn Ruby, but I’m not much of a reader. Far too impatient, so I figured I’d jump into some code and write something. The result was a random number generator. It’s not great, but it does the job. Pick a minimum and maximum number, and it will generate them.
Posted in Ruby
By epb on August 12, 2007
If you are administering your own WordPress blog and are suddenly seeing massive page load times after editing a post or adding a new category, try adding your host name to /etc/hosts. More information on this issue can be viewed on the link below. Basically, it boils down to WordPress making HTTP calls and needing [...]
Posted in Wordpress