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Entries written in February 2008

Freshbooks now tracks Expenses

Written February 26, 2008 in reviews

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My favorite time and billing application now tracks expenses. If you bill hourly for your work or sell products via the web, you really need to check out Freshbooks — it’ll make your life a lot easier.

Just as an example — last year my taxes took a weekend, with …

The one and only political post…

Written February 25, 2008 in punditry

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This will likely be the only political post you’ll ever see on this blog.

An Associated Press writer wrote a good analysis on campaign promises vs. the likely reality … while it’s the type of thing that I think should appear on the editorial page more than in the hard …

MySQL and Threading vs. Context Switching

Written February 21, 2008 in linux, mysql, sysadmin

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Is your MySQL server running multiple processes with each running a single thread? Read this: Enabling Threading in MySQL. Ran into this on someone else’s legacy server today.

PHP Opcode Cache Links

Written February 21, 2008 in php

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Here’s a few links talking about the PHP opcode cache, which came out of a discussion on the Zend Framework mailing list about whether or not Zend Framework benefits from APC and other Opcode Caches.

http://pooteeweet.org/blog/538
http://t3.dotgnu.info/blog/php/demystifying-autofilter.html

The general gist of things is if you have a hierarchy of functions like Zend Framework does and code in a one-class-per-file style and include conditionally (based upon autoload and other mechanisms like includes inside conditionals), then you may take a corresponding performance hit. However: This should be fixed in PHP 5.3.

In the News!

Written February 19, 2008 in meta

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I was quoted in an article about work I did while working at Texas A&M University Athletics on their high-availability web infrastructure.

vim tags for anything!

Written February 15, 2008 in php, webdev

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Matthew O’phinney covers how to use exuberant-ctags to map a code library for tab-complete in vim.

Today’s Reading List

Written February 1, 2008 in reading list, sysadmin

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(Since this started out as a log for me to keep track of what my brain actually needs to be doing, and y’all just started reading it by accident, I’m gonna take my blog back for me for a sec.)

Reading I need to do over the weekend: