So why CSS Sprites?
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…
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…
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…
This article is a follow-up to Performance in a Webfusion shared service and guidelines for optimising PHP applications. I decided to have a look at general postings on PHP performance…
The general advice here is don’t – especially if you are not familiar with the bash command shell and Linux environments in general. However, there are still certain cases when…
The ownership and permission system on the shared Webfusion LAMP services are somewhat odd and merit being documented. Here is a listing of an appropriate subset of the access and…
I’ve just finished rereading my ME/CFS updates. Looking back over that year-on-year time-scale, I can see that am continuing to make progress towards recovery, even though it’s often a case of…
Last week I had some fun when I moved my blog rewrite from my home development system to the Webfusion service. This was a quick copy of a PHP script…
This is a little journey of fun that I wanted to record. If you happen to own a Webfusion shared account and you navigate to the Webfusion Support Site, selecting…
I will cover the architecture of my blog engine in another article, but one feature that I wanted to add was some form of WSYISWYG editor for two main uses:…
I first came across a templating engine implementation in phpBB, and the phpBB wiki gives this overview of how it is used. I felt that the principle of separation of business…
I manage a few websites on a hobby / pro-bono basic, with this personal site being the smallest and the OpenOffice.org user forums being the largest (nicknamed usOOo after initials…
This is a subsidiary article to Using PHP applications on a Webfusion hosted service (Linux), and in this want to discuss how to use .htaccess files on a Webfusion Linux…
I discussed the common types of ISP hosting services in a previous article, Use cases for phpBB, and I use one of these hosting services myself — a shared web…
The Doctor Myhill wiki is now live. A valuable resource for fellow ME / CFS sufferers.
As I wrote a year ago in my previous CFS update, I did find a step improvement in my quality of life when I started taking the Myhill regime of…
I’ve just finished the third version upgrade of the OOo sites, this time to version 3.0.5. It was a little smoother than last time, but that’s because I have to…
This note is a mix of material. The new content is really for the phpBB developers and assumes a detailed understanding of the phpBB architecture. It's aim is to raise…
Any performance tuning analysis is best grounded in a hard target system to provide the instrumentation data. In the case of a product such as phpBB, the best we can…
Background The OpenOffice.org (“OOo”) forums (“Community Forums”) started life in Nov 2007 with the creation of the English forum running on phpBB 3.0.0 on a Sun Coolstack platform with PostgreSQL…
Well it’s a year since my CFS illness came back to haunt me, and unlike my attack twenty years ago I can’t say that I am now over the worst…