Out of the corner of my eye

visited 19 states (8.44%)

Courtesy of Douwe Osinga (go there to make your own map), via Matt Cutts.

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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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Actually this is Ruby I guess, not even got as far as Rails! Main Rails page says “We recommend Ruby 1.8.7″ but there’s no installer for it. I think over the years I’ve had more installs of Rails fail than succeed. Back to PHP!
C:\ruby>gem install rails
Install required dependency actionpack? [Yn]
Install required dependency rack? [Yn]
Install required […]

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This is covered in a few places for divs but the problem I had was with the top level web page getting a disabled vertical scrollbar that was unnecessary. Funny thing is, in quirks mode it doesn’t appear, and it happens in IE7! (99% of my IE struggles are with 6…)
To get rid of it, […]

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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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For some reason, “{$current_page+1}” parses as the variable with one added, but “{$current_page-1}” parses as a single variable called “$current_page-1″.
Spaces correct it.
What the hell?

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It’s been a busy month for JavaScript engines. Google pushed out Chrome with its V8 engine at the start of the month, featuring efficient garbage collection and hidden classes that boosted performance dramatically. Mozilla nonchalantly responded that they would soon be releasing their own TraceMonkey engine, with claimed increases over V8.
Not to bad outdone, the […]

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If you open a port in the server 2003 firewall, be prepared for some things to silently fail, such as database replication: apparently a weird ‘reset’ is sent to everything that’s connected, but it doesn’t seem to work properly so some apps think their TCP connections are still established (such as MySQL). This can then […]

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I’ve started a new blog about Microsoft Silverlight’s Deep Zoom technology, mainly out of personal interest. I plan to follow the release of new websites that make use of the technology, with the hope that we’ll see some nice innovative deployments. The Hard Rock Cafe’s Memorabilia is the first one I look at, as it […]

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