Before I was an entrepreneur, I was a developer. And a geek.
Today, I still like to think of myself as a full stack hacker, from DB design to front-end dev, through server security and performance optimization.
This blog is about code, the OS (Mac or Linux), database design, web app, responsive websites, webperf, server maintenance and looking at nerdy metrics…
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…...
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:…...
There’s 2 problems to mouse speed:
The acceleration curve of the mouse mouvement which I’ve talked about before maximum mouvement speed
The maximum speed can be set through the System preferences panel, but even when the slider is all…...
Did you know there were actually 5 different fans inside a Mac Pro (early 2009 version)? They are named Intake, Exhaust, BoostA, PCI and Power Supply! By default, all of them turn pretty slowly; in the 600 to 850 rpm range! Which makes the whole thing pr…...
If you have multiple macs (and an iPhone), mobile.me is a must have, of course, but it only syncs so much... basically:
Address book Calendar Mail (but I'm using IMAP anyways) Safari bookmarks System preferences
mobile.me does not auto-sync:…...
Tonight, for the first time, I rented a movie on iTunes...And I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised by the fact the movie came with 2 soundtracks: Stereo & "Surrond".Well, "surround" turns out to be AC3 Dobly Digital and it does work on the Mac…...
What do you do if you have, say, an encrypted sparsebundle and some day you try to open it and you discover it shows up as a plain folder in the Finder instead as a bundle icon?
Double clicking will just open the folder and show you the bands that mak…...
I finally ordered the Mac Pro that will kick the last "standing" PC out of this place :D I feel lighter already :))This is going to be my main/development machine. The PC I had for this since 2006 is actually still good from a hardware standpoint... th…...
We had them before, but suddenly in Mac OS X 10.5 they disappeared! However, whenever I want to grab something on the network, my intuitive reflex is to look for the network drive icon on the desktop! :'(I had to dig around quite a while to find teh se…...
One thing I hate about US keyboards is that they don't let me type my French special characters by any memorable strecth -- what's the dead key for the cedilla again? (ç)One thing I hate about French keytboards is that they have all the punctuation key…...