GOOGLE ADS ARE STILL RIDICULOUS
I love Google ads. They always entertain me. I found this one on my friend’s MySpace profile.
EXPERTS EXCHANGE SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS
I was trying to figure out how to extend my wireless network down a few floors a few days ago, and one of my queries brought me to experts exchange. The question looked useful: Using Linksys WAP54G as Wireless Repeater. This is exactly what I wanted to do. However, once I actually scrolled down to view the answers, I saw this I thought this was pretty weird, since I was pretty sure in the snippet...
'PHP: SETTING UP XDEBUG WITH KCACHEGRIND'
KCacheGrind is a very useful tool to identify bottlenecks in your applications. This will explain the steps to using it to find issues with your PHP scripts. For me, the scripts are all web pages. I’m already assuming you’re running a current version of PHP. I did this using PHP 5.2.1. These instructions are based on a Unix/Linux server, if you’re running Windows I can’t...
APACHE COMPILE ERROR
I got this while recompiling apache (2.2.4). configure: error: Cannot use an external APR-util with the bundled APR After searching around for a while, I found a tip here to include this in my configure: --with-included-apr Built on MacOS X 10.4.
WE'RE HIRING
My company, Demand Media, has 10 spots for .NET web developers. If you’re good, and interested in a job in Santa Monica, hit me up. jon AT letsgetnuts dot com.
PHP COMPILE ERROR ON CENTOS INSTALL
I installed CentOS 5 on my VMWare a few days ago. I installed gcc via yum, compiled and installed libxml2. I then tried to install PHP 5.2.3 and received this error: configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. It took me forever to figure this out, but I had to install the g++ library, then it compiled fine. yum install gcc-c++
MORE RIDICULOUS ADS
I can’t even handle these sometimes. This is off violentacres, a blog I like to read every now and then because the author is such an asshole. Edit: I accidentally used the thumbnail when I was editing the post originally. My bad.
INNODB PERFORMANCE ON WINDOWS?
Let me first state that I’ve only run MySQL on Linux and MacOS X, never Windows. This is the first I’ve heard of Innodb having massive performance issues. Check out Karl Seguin’s blog post.
USING SVN TO MANAGE A WEBSITE
We’ve tried several ways of using SVN to manage Answerbag. Here’s a brief overview. We work out of the trunk for very small projects (under a few hours) We create branches to deal with larger projects, and merge those changes back into the trunk when they are done and tested. When we do a code push, we always push a branch called “production”. When it’s time to push,...
CALCULATING THE QUERIES PER SECOND AVERAGE IN MYSQL
I didn’t find any simple ways to determine how hard our mysql database was working, so I whipped this up. It uses a 10 second delay to figure out the queries per second average. time=10 orig=mysql -e “show status” | awk ‘{if ($1 == “Questions”) print $2}’ sleep $time last=mysql -e “show status” | awk ‘{if ($1 == “Questions”)...