The Weekly World Whatever. Served Fresh Daily. A weblog featuring a mixture of programming tidbits, business news & opinion, book reviews and maybe even some fun & games (if you’re lucky).
I recently discovered that one of our websites had become so painfully slow that it was taking several seconds to display a cached file. We are using Zend_Cache, from the Zend Framework, to cache frequently accessed content. On the Zend_Cache backend we are using Zend_Cache_Backend_File to cache thousands of documents. We were […]
Piwik is an open-source web analytics project worth keeping an eye on. I suspect as it evolves it will become a great alternative to Urchin, the self-hosted edition of Google Analytics.
The problem that many have with Google Analytics is that you lose control of your data to a third party. Most existing alternatives […]
Good luck folks
I promised fun and games, so you’re getting fun and games.
Every day (well, some days) I’m going to pick a clue from my morning crossword and give a prize (a congratulatory note in the comments) to the first person to solve it. Some will be clues I’ve cracked and others will be clues I’m […]
Are you having trouble installing MySQL 5.0.51a in Vista because of the following error message?
The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail.
There is a problem with the MySQLInstanceConfig.exe in this version of MySQL. If you selected the option to “configure this […]