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So why CSS Sprites?

Post author:TerryE
Post published:11th 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…

A lightweight HTML cache for a Webfusion shared service

Post author:TerryE
Post published:11th January 2011
Post category:Blog S/W
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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…

More on optimising PHP applications in a Webfusion shared service

Post author:TerryE
Post published:20th December 2010
Post category:Shared Hosting
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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…

Running remote commands on a Webfusion shared service

Post author:TerryE
Post published:6th December 2010
Post category:Shared Hosting
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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…

Access and Permissions on a Webfusion shared service

Post author:TerryE
Post published:26th November 2010
Post category:Shared Hosting
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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…

A miserable case of ME/CFS – three years on

Post author:TerryE
Post published:24th November 2010
Post category:ME / CFS
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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…

Another Apache configuration funny on a Webfusion shared service

Post author:TerryE
Post published:22nd November 2010
Post category:Shared Hosting
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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…

FTP access to Webfusion shared accounts

Post author:TerryE
Post published:22nd November 2010
Post category:Shared Hosting
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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…

Using TinyMCE for WSYISWYG editing

Post author:TerryE
Post published:5th November 2010
Post category:Blog S/W
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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:…

My blog’s templating engine

Post author:TerryE
Post published:10th October 2010
Post category:Blog S/W
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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…

Performance in a Webfusion shared service and guidelines for optimising PHP applications

Post author:TerryE
Post published:6th October 2010
Post category:Performance Shared Hosting
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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…

Using .htaccess files on a Webfusion shared service

Post author:TerryE
Post published:6th October 2010
Post category:Shared Hosting
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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…

Using PHP applications on a Webfusion hosted service (Linux)

Post author:TerryE
Post published:5th October 2010
Post category:Shared Hosting
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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 new Dr Myhill site goes live

Post author:TerryE
Post published:2nd February 2010
Post category:ME / CFS
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The Doctor Myhill wiki is now live. A valuable resource for fellow ME / CFS sufferers.

A miserable case of ME/CFS – two years on

Post author:TerryE
Post published:10th December 2009
Post category:ME / CFS
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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…

New OpenOffice.org User Forum(s) on line

Post author:TerryE
Post published:2nd September 2009
Post category:OOo
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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…

A PHP Cache Overview and Cache Tuning

Post author:TerryE
Post published:15th June 2009
Post category:Performance
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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…

Use cases for phpBB

Post author:TerryE
Post published:14th June 2009
Post category:Performance
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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…

Migrating the OpenOffice.Org forums to a common code-base

Post author:TerryE
Post published:30th March 2009
Post category:OOo
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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…

A not so slight case of ME/CFS – one year on

Post author:TerryE
Post published:10th December 2008
Post category:ME / CFS
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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…