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Performance

• 11.08.09
  Karmic Koala – post install notes   Linux, Networks, Open Source, Performance (0)

  Installed Ubuntu 9.10 a few days ago. Everything seemed OK (very very nice actually) except for a little network performance glitch that may also bother you.  Canonical has once again taken Linux one step further away from the status of geek-challenge to a user friendly alternative to other OS’es.
  One thing bothered me though – general [...]

• 05.06.09
  Javascript performance on current browsers   Geekyness, Linux, Performance, Software design, Web, Windows (1)

  Found this little test which gives an indicator as to Javascript performance in your browser.
  On my system (Windows XP on two year old Lenovo T60p laptop) i tried to run it ten times on my browsers with all plugins disabled (lower is better):
  Google Chrome: 297,7Firefox 3.5 beta 4: 340Firefox 3.0.10: 408,9Internet Explorer 8: 631,3
  As the [...]

• 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 [...]

• 05.15.08
  What goes on in my registry when…   Free, Geekyness, Performance, Windows (0)

  Ever asked yourself what actually happens when you perform a certain thing in a certain program? Which files are read, created, updated and what goes on in my registry.
  The Sysinternals Process Monitor tool does this. Filter the events any way you need and you will be able to release registry updates quickly. I just used [...]

• 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 [...]

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