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…
A lightweight HTML cache for a Webfusion shared service
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
The Doctor Myhill wiki is now live. A valuable resource for fellow ME / CFS sufferers.
A miserable case of ME/CFS – two years on
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
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
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
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
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
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…