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…...
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:…...
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…...
It's been 3 years since PHP 5 has been released. Yet PHP 4 still rules on the vast majority of web hosting platforms. This is annoying for PHP open source developers who cannot leverage the potential of PHP 5 as long as they need to support PHP 4. Thi…...
"People don’t recognize how important URIs are. The notion that you have a huge, world-scale, information space, and that everything in it has an name and they’re all just short strings that you can paint on the side of a bus; that’s a new thing and a go…
Most sites can be reached by two different URLs. For example http://b2evolution.net/about/features.html and http://www.b2evolution.net/about/features.html . This is good for the users who can choose wether or not to type in the "www." part. However, i…...
When looking at the sitemaps protocol which is now endorsed by Google, Yahoo and MSN, I can't help but crying about how obscure the documentation is, especially for the element. Please note that the priority you assign to a page is…...
It was bound to happen. Macromedia's (well, Adobe's) Flash player finally evolved into a very complete Virtual Machine. They call it Apollo. It basically solves the same problem Java has tried to solve for years: write once, run anywhere. Though it's…...
I've been banging my head on my Mac & PC monitors with this! I had gone a long way already with color matching my Mac & PC displays, but this is far worse! Suppose you have a logo on a plain color background that has a specific color code,…...