Yay – my dell new server is now online :D

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Finally I got the good news from my new hosting company I can hardly wait to get it FreeBSD 7.0 installed on it and setup a nice vhost system with Lighttpd + PostgreSQL. It's gonna be awsome. The server I'm currently using is 'only' Dual core XEON w/ 3.5Gb ram, and some ...

open_basedir will slow you down – security vs. speed

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Just a quickie. I’m working on some security enhancements for my new website project, and in that progress, I have moved away from Apache2.2.3 and now using Lighttpd instead. Lighttpd does not use the same method of invoking php as apache does (mod_php vs. fast-cgi php). In my eager to make the ...

New books from amazon.co.uk

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Just got an email from Amazon.co.uk - the have shipped my new batch of dev-books :) This time around it was more an impulze to buy some books, so I hope I will end up as satisfied as last time I purchased some books from them. Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, ...

Faster Page Loads – Bundle Your CSS and Javascript with lighttpd

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Hello again, Preface This time I have been busy playing with Lighttpd and mod_magnet. I found a blog post where darix mentions a post from sitepoint where they demostrate a technique to speed up the HTTP GET of javascript and CSS files. Its quite simple really, instead of doing <link href="/css/styles1.css" rel="stylesheet" ...

A quick tutorial on CakePHP Set class (Part 1)

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Test data $data = array( 1 => array('Post' => array( 'id' => 1, 'post_comment_count' => 2, 'name' => 'My first title', 'body' => ...

A small change in RSS feeds.

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Hello again. I have made a small change to the feeds now. Everybody who has subscribed by Feedburner should not notice anything strange. The reason for the change is that I want to be able to blog in Danish too once in a while, and to avoid the 'danish pølsesnak' for you ...

CakePHP talk from FOSDEM – Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

A small note, gwoo's talk from FOSDM 2008 has been made public avilable here together with his slides. Its actually a quite good presentation, too bad he ran out of time in the end ;)

CakePHP Weekly Summaries Issue #2

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Welcome Welcome to the second edition of the CakePHP weekly summaries. Its quite embarrassing that it had to take so long time to get the second editon out. Too long time has passed and the amount of things that has happend during that period is waaay too big to be covered ...

CakePHP Weekly Summaries Issue #1.5

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Hello, just wanted to post a quick apoligy :) Sorry that I havent created the weekly summaries for almost 1.5 week now. The reason is that I have begun on a new job, and its consuming quick alot of time and energy ;) Lot of new systems to learn (They dont ...

CounterCache in CakePHP 1.2 beta

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Update 05.01.2008 At the moment the counterCache code is only executed on CREATE, not on UPDATE - a patch is under way Hello, Just a little turtorial to demonstrate the new model counterCache feature. CounterCache is a very fancy little addition to our beloved CakePHP framework. Simply put, all it does is make sure that ...