Tag: "development"
20. January 2012
Live HTTP Header tracking for Firefox
Live HTTP headers is a FireFox extension that lets you look at all HTTP headers for all requests issued by the browser. Now updated for Firefox 1.5. more »
3. December 2009
Why echo is slow in PHP and how to make it really fast
You may have noticed that PHP scripts that echo a lot of content appear to be running with poor performance... Well, the operative word here is "appear". It is a common misconception that "echo is the slowest PHP command"! The problem is actually… more »
3. December 2009
How to log request processing times in Apache
If you have an apache (2) web server, you probably have an access.log file showing you all kinds of data using the "combined" log format. Let's see how to include processing time into that log file.
By default a line in the combined log looks like this… more »
29. November 2009
How to install the APC PHP Cache on Debian (Lenny or Squeeze)
The APC cache can significantly improve your PHP script performance, just by installing it, whoch basically takes 5 minutes! Here's what I did on my Debian Lenny box... First you may want to have a reference benchmark to see if it actually improves:… more »
28. May 2009
How to install b2evolution on Mac OS X in 5 minutes from scratch
Tested with MAMP 1.7.2, b2evolution 3.2 and Mac OS X 10.5.7 :Download and install MAMP (Free) into the Applications folderStart MAMP and make sure you get the MAMP start pageDownload b2evolution and unzip it into /Applications/MAMP/htdocsPoint… more »