Category

LAMP

04.03.13

It’s almost too easy with a Raspberry Pi Geekyness, LAMP, Linux, Open Source (0)

I am part of Overskrift.dk – a local social media monitoring service built on a LAMP stack. We are the server itself, but also quite a few older laptops. They do have a couple of downsides though: Big (-ish) Clunky Noisy Power consuming Have mechanical harddisks They each need PHP, cUrl and a MySQL client library [...]
09.21.12

A valuable lesson in the Facebook API Facebook, LAMP, Web (0)

So – A client wanted to enable users to pick a friend from Facebook and buy them a birthday-present on their e-Commerce site. Being sort of a n00b in the world of Facebook i thought Hey – that’s just a question of creating a Facebook App and list the friends using FQL that would pick [...]
09.22.10

Twitter OAuth with PHP and cURL multi LAMP, OAuth, Software design, Twitter, Web (0)

I am maintaining a website that aggregate a large number of Twitter accounts’ tweets. For this purpose we’ve been given one of the accounts with the high API request rate limit – usually it is possible to call the Twitter API’s 150 times every hour. We have a rate limit of 20.000 hourly requests and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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