Last week I got to see Jay Pipes speak at a local PHP users group meeting. He did a 2-part talk on optimizing SQL (Join-Fu, as he calls it). I managed to keep up and follow part 1, but I have to admit that part 2 was largely over my head. Below [...]
Category Archives: LAMP
Content Management Systems are Hot
March 9, 2008 – 9:00 pm
Content Management Systems are a hot tool in libraries right now. At our place alone, we’re using Drupal for our main website, WordPress as a basic CMS for multiple sites, and we are helping one of our member libraries build a new site with Joomla. Libraries are becoming interested in making their websites [...]
Firefox for Development
August 23, 2007 – 8:54 pm
Firefox is a great web browser, but it also makes for a great development environment. With the right extensions loaded, you can really save some time tracing through code, finding bugs, and optimizing your site. Below are the extensions that I have loaded in Firefox.
ColorZilla
This extension puts a little eye dropper tool in [...]
Free Up Some Time and Your Todo List
April 17, 2007 – 11:01 pm
Library Web Chic recently talked about using cron on *nix boxes to automate web server log file rotations. At MPOW I use cron quite a bit on our Linux boxes. Once you get the hang of it, cron makes it so easy to automate tasks. On our web server, I use [...]
Make Your LAMP Go Faster
February 16, 2007 – 10:21 pm
If you use PHP and/or MySQL on a site with heavy traffic, go read 4+1 Ways To Speed Up WordPress With Caching. While the article promotes these tips as ways to speed up WordPress, they’re actually good tips for speeding up PHP/MySQL in general. The idea is that the data being served by [...]
