Out of the corner of my eye

Things I’ve learned about deploying a busy PHP application on Amazon EC2 WAMP/WIMP stacks
(the hard way)
In no particular order:
APC and __autoload
Rasmus said __autoload doesn’t play nice with APC.
This might have been true in 2006 when the blog post was written but it doesn’t seem so much following my tests (PHP 5.2.10 with APC 3.0.15). Our […]

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Russell Beattie says he doesn’t get “retweeting”.
Danrimon says:
“beside the fact that my followers deserve to hear something i heard from another twitt. there is the social balance of twitter. by me re twitting someone else i am honoring him, and im spreading his name further, because all my followers will know who brought this link, […]

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So, after reading Shoemoney extorting the massive traffic he gets to his blog from Twitter (does he need it?), I decided to finally buckle and give it a try. My first impression of Twitter?

At least I got 10 minutes of use before I saw the infamous “fail whale”.
I’ve tried really hard to think of something […]

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The concept of a solar furnace has been around since the 70’s, but this video really emphasises just how powerful they can be - this one can melt steel in seconds!
The real question is commercial viability: can the cost of production be lowered enough so that steam turbines powered by a solar furnace are cheaper […]

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