2007

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PHP-CGI improvement

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.

Cannisgroup Hosting: Of AWStats Installations and PHP Zombies

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.

Google Maps API

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 [...]

My first script in Ruby

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.

WordPress Performance Issues

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 [...]