rssCloud By The Numbers
Here at WordPress.com we like to keep stats on the various features and resources available to our users. So as part of the release for rssCloud on WordPress.com I added internal stats to see how it was being used. It tracks things like the number of subscription requests and the number of sent notifications (pings) that get processed each day.
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Hyper PHP
The magazine 'therumpus.net has collected the words from an employee of Facebook. The interview talks about a project Hyper PHP.The Hyper PHP is a recompiled version of PHP servers optimized for Facebook.Currently, the community site Facebook is written in PHP and the many options offered by this site consumes resources. The result causes slowdowns at the time of execution.This new project would save time responses and especially a gain in consumption of servers. The result is expected to display the content of pages more quickly.
For now, to benefit from this technology, under development, we must await the official announcement will explain in more detail the power of the new version of Facebook
Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices
You're a mySQL developper, you should read this. Very interesting and usefull little tips to ehance your applications.
This post is written by Burak Guzel.
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The CRONs task
The CRON tasks allows you to execute scripts automatically. Many ways exists to do that but this can make some server's low performances, especialy connections to the mySQL server.
However some rules exists to elimintate some basics errors.
The blog MySQL Perfomances shows an optimised approach to avoid to surcharge it with an exemple in PHP.
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Opera 10 Release Candidate available
The norwegian browser is back !
Although his breakthrough on the market of mobile surfing is more honorable, Opera barely beat out Internet Explorer and Firefox rival free (just 2% market share).
But Opera dont miss qualities, and its respect for the W3C RFC is very appreciated by the developers.
Mac OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard
The new Snow Leopard is available in pre-order and will be available in store the 28th september 2009.
Upgrade from Mac OS X Leopard with Snow Leopard, a simpler, more powerful, and more refined version of Mac OS X. It delivers a wide range of enhancements, next-generation technologies, out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange Server, and new accessibility features. It's the world's most advanced operating system, finely tuned from installation to shutdown.
Snow Leopard is an upgrade for Leopard users and requires a Mac with an Intel processor.
More details
Apple website
PHP regular expressions
Noupe.com as published a tutorial for getting started with PHP's regular expressions.
Regular expressions are a powerfull tool to verify format, integrity and validity of datas.
You can find the article here.
The regular expressions documentation
Compressez vos CSS avec CleanCSS
Vous désirez compresser un peu vos feuilles css car elles sont trop volumineuses ? Voici la réponse à cette question.
On connaissait déjà CSSTidy, programme tournant sur Windows, Linux et OSX. C'est justement sur ce dernier que CleanCSS est basé, mais l'avantage de celui-ci, c'est qu'il est sous forme de WebApp et est online.
Il permet de compresser plus ou moins vos css afin de garder la lisibilité que vous souhaitez, et d'autres options.
La configuration de CleanCSS
Je l'utilise personnellement pour mes projets. Après justement quelques semaines d'utilisation, je suis plutôt satisfait. Le code produit est propre, bien compressé, mais toujours lisible.
Le site est disponible en français, anglais et allemand pour le moment.