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16fév/100

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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2fév/100

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

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

Complet interview
Facebook site

1déc/090

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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18oct/090

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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27août/090

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.

Download it : here
The press review : here

26août/090

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

25août/090

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

14août/090

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

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.

Le site de CleanCSS
Le site de CSSTidy