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A quick point about timing

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:1 February 2012
  • Post category:Blog S/W/Performance/Shared Hosting
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I've just deployed my V3 blog engine to live.  In doing so, the time per query jumped from <10 mSec per query to ~2.5s — which meant that the typical page…

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Creating a test VM to mirror the Webfusion Shared Service

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:29 November 2011
  • Post category:Blog S/W/Shared Hosting
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In previous articles I have discussed how difficult it is for users of a shared web hosting service such as Webfusion's to develop and to debug applications on a service…

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Oh, the embarrassment!

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:25 November 2011
  • Post category:Blog S/W/Shared Hosting
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I’ve just discovered a bug in my blog: any comment posts get thrown into the bit-bucket and are never passed to me for acceptance / publishing if the user making…

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HTTP Caching Revisited

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:29 June 2011
  • Post category:Blog S/W/Performance
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I find the issues around of Web performance very interesting.  I’ve researched pretty comprehensively and written a few articles in this area. I also routinely use various web tools to…

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PHP – Why is image activation such an overhead?

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:8 March 2011
  • Post category:Blog S/W/Performance
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As I’ve discussed in earlier articles, such as Using PHP applications on a Webfusion hosted service (Linux), a webserver will be able to achieve far higher thoughput processing PHP requests…

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Getting burned on PHP operator precedence

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:1 March 2011
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With a POST form, you need to be careful when you return the response that the user might just issue a refresh and in doing so resubmit the form, resulting…

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Putting it all together: my blog engine architecture

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:20 February 2011
  • Post category:Blog S/W
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This blog has pretty much turned into a self-referential exercise as a major theme in my articles is the development and performance of the blog engine itself.  This started because…

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Rounding off the use of TinyMCE for WYSIWYG editing

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:16 February 2011
  • Post category:Blog S/W
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This is a follow-up a previous article, which described how I use the TinyMCE editor for comment and article creation.  However, at the time of writing this, there were four…

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So why CSS Sprites?

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:11 February 2011
  • Post category:Blog S/W/Performance
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Use of CSS sprites is an advanced HTML technique that can be a little controversial – at least in terms of questioning whether any potential performance benefits merits the effort…

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A lightweight HTML cache for a Webfusion shared service

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:11 January 2011
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This article takes the optimisation of my blog engine to a next stage.  It develops some of the thoughts and concepts that I’ve previously discussed in the following articles: Using…

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