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PHP 5.2.14 released but don’t get excited yet

Htbaa — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:47:25 +0000

Yesterday PHP 5.2.14 has been released, together with PHP 5.3.3. I used to get excited about PHP updates, but no more. This is because of a number of disappointments I’ve talked about earlier. But that’s not really the reason of why not to get excited. So, why shouldn’t we be excited about PHP 5.2.14? The [...]

Is there a way to share loaded Perl modules amongst users?

Htbaa — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:29:13 +0000

I was wondering if there’s a way to have a Perl process share some commonly used modules (such as DBI, DBIx::Class and Template) amongst different users? I’ve looked at FCGI::Spawn but it didn’t seem to me it was capable of it. What I’d like to do is run a single Perl daemon which has some [...]

How a programming language influences your mood

Htbaa — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:54:14 +0000

For over 3,5 years now I’ve been programming professionally in PHP. First in PHP4 and about half a year later we finally converted to PHP5. At first I was excited because I could use a lot of new features PHP5 offered such as proper OOP but also Zend Framework. I started using Zend Framework from [...]

Distributed jobs with Gearman

Htbaa — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:31:55 +0000

The first time I heard of Gearman was at Stack Overflow where a question was asked on how to stop workers nicely. On which an excellent joke was made by Cletus: “See now I was going to reply “Bitte halten Sie!” ” . Since then Gearman was stuck in my mind. So far I haven’t [...]

Excellent collection of Ubuntu 10.04 server guides

Htbaa — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:00:06 +0000

Wanted to share that Rackspace has an excellent collection of configuration guides for Ubuntu 10.04 server. Aside from Ubuntu they’ve got guides for every other big Linux distribution as well, such as Fedora, Red Hat, Debian and CentOS. I don’t use those distributions myself but thought it would be nice to mention it. Check their [...]

Using rsnapshot for daily MySQL backups

Htbaa — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:58:29 +0000

Now that I’m using a CloudServer I figured I had to do something about backups as well. I’ve been using rsnapshot at work for a few years now and it’s an ideal backup solution. Because rsnapshot (which uses rsync as its base) makes use of hard links backups are very efficient. Basically it means that [...]

Server move

Htbaa — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:17:18 +0000

Yesterday the provider that hosted my blog let someone loose on the MySQL database causing my website to be unavailable. It was that very moment I decided I had enough of shared hosting. I’ve moved the website to a Rackspace CloudServer, which basically is a VPS of which I have full control. It’s a lot [...]

Entering the Iron Man Blogging Challenge

Htbaa — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:45:14 +0000

I’ve decided I should enter the Iron Man Blogging Challenge. Basically what you have to do is write 4 Perl related posts within 32 days, with a maximum interval of 10 days between every post. What’s in it for me? If I keep up with the frequency I get a cool badge to put on [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 with vmhgfs and open-vm-tools

Htbaa — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:14:11 +0000

In an earlier post by me I described how to get open-vm-tools working in Ubuntu 9.10. Turns out that this doesn’t quite work for the latest version of Ubuntu, 10.04. A few tickets were spent on it at Launchpad and finally last night someone, I presume the module author, said you also need to install [...]

Check your XCache settings!

Htbaa — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:19:25 +0000

So for a while now all PHP based applications at work were performing quite sloppy. Even though we’re using XCache as the opcode cache there was no difference in performance when XCache was enabled or disabled. Now, for small applications it didn’t really matter, but Zend Framework based applications were really slow. Even when all [...]