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…
Setting up the OpenOffice.org User Forum
For the last six months I’ve been an active member of the OooForum, but a number of the more active members became dissatisfied with the guy who is the owner…
A slight case of ME/CFS
It’s back, and with a vengeance! I had my first bout of ME/CFS 21 years ago only in those days it was just called ME. Three months ago I had…