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Web developers: 4 chart widgets you can use for free

Posted by Robert S.

I have been looking for some free and fancy charts to spice up web application I’m building for a client. The four most useful tools I came across were: Open Flash Charts, Google Chart API, Yahoo! UI Library Charts, and Sparklines.
Open Flash Charts
Open Flash Charts by John Glazebrook takes the top spot with the […]

Is the Zend Framework’s Zend_Cache slowing you down?

Posted by Robert S.

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 […]

Can’t install MySQL 5.0.51a in Vista because its “side-by-side configuration is incorrect”?

Posted by Robert S.

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 […]