Category Archives: LAMP

Firefox for Development

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

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

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 [...]