What are we looking at?
The chart above shows Ubuntu in a 2 and 8 core configuration (the x2 and x8), along with a Server 2008 instance.
What does it mean? The good folks over at FaceBook recently released a custom tool called HopHop that rewrites PHP into native c++ code. The upshot to this, as you can see, is bare-bones PHP code, that is, code which relies on math and loops and such, is much, much faster. Of course other code should be faster as well, though I have yet to benchmark more complex scripts.
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Here’s a simple script for managing/editing playlists in the popular JW Player.
It’s called [ Media Manager For JW Player ], and is the first GNU General Public License software I’ve ever released—e.g., it’s free and anyone can edit it.
That means I hope that this little manager will be of use to someone, but more importantly, may grow into something larger if others want it pick it up and run with it.
The Media Manager For JW Player Interface
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* Benchmarks current as as of 2.17.10
Who’s the fastest: Apache on Windows or Apache on Linux?. In the course of deploying a new web server I thought I’d find out. I play around with APC, Database tuning, and so on. Among other things, in the end we see how with a few simple settings we can increase our servers capacity 2 times over.
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We recentlly had to convert a few b2Evolution blogs to WordPress 2.8, something that is apparentlly common but not very standardized. Thus, after some digging I found a script, but it did not work with the newest versions of each component.
After a few tweaks I was able to get it working again, and now I would like to share the result with this slightly modified b2Evo to Wordpress Import Script:
import-b2evolution-wp2
If you are trying to import from another system, this codex link may be of use.
I recently decided to try something new and perform a custom install of an AMP stack on my Fedora 10 box. I configure, build, and install everything by hand. It was an extremely rewarding experience (because it works and you learn a ton about your Linux box), but it took a while. Read more…