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LAMP

• 02.09.09
  Testing: WP Super Cache   Geekyness, LAMP, Performance, Web (0)

  Seems like a very cool plugin to enhance the userexperience – performance wise, plus it seems to prepare Wordpress blogs for high traffic spikes.
  Bug found: Links to posts from archives seems to cache PHP-code – not the resulting HTML. There’s gotta be a simple fix. Was a bit quick there. The bug is in my [...]

• 11.05.07
  Magpie RSS/Snoopy problem finally solved   LAMP, Open Source, Tips (0)

  MagpieRSS IS great – I like it a lot, and it almost does exactly what you need to aggregate RSS feeds from PHP. MagpieRSS has one achilles heel in Snoopy. MagpieRSS relies on Snoopy as the HTTP-client (browser-component) that fetches feeds from websites – be it RSS or Atom formatted – It fetches files from [...]

• 09.12.07
  Generate PDF files from PHP   Geekyness, LAMP, Linux, Open Source, Tips, Web (0)

  For a web project I needed to create invoices, to be downloaded or e-mailed to clients in PDF format. The platform is PHP and the documentation for this almost exclusively describe PDFLib for this purpose. I am sure PDFLib is fine, and the tutorials that come with the package looks really good.
  But..
  You pay for PDFLib [...]

• 08.31.07
  MySQL query/indexing tip   LAMP, MySQL, Open Source, Performance (0)

  I originally learned about this MySQL shortcoming in the book High Performance MySQL, and luckily I remembered it for an issue that struck me today.
  I have two tables – one containing blog-posts, and one containing a record for each tag on these posts. Now the requirement was to show a blog post AND to show [...]

• 05.22.07
  Windows ‘amp tip   Geekyness, LAMP, Tips (0)

  I was annoyed – but not anymore. I have been developing for Apache/MySQL on my laptop for a while, and in the beginning I would start the Apache and MySQL services automatically as I booted Windows. Recently I embarked to minimize the boot time of my Windows installation – and that included minimizing the services [...]

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