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The Perfect APC Configuration
…ing about 10 ExpressionEngine sites using Apache 2, APC, and Memcached. Here is my configuration: Operating system - Mac OS X Server Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) Processor - 2 GHz Intel Core i7 RAM - 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Disk - 13.5 TB total Apache - 2.2.22 PHP - 5.3.15…
Events and Real-Time Messaging in Chrome Extensions Using Simperium
…into Chrome Extension development. The scenario was pretty simple, I had to notify a group of users when someone from the group was using a website. A Chrome Extension was an obvious choice and after a bit of documentation I came across Simperium, a service that I could use to…
Mobile First With Bootstrap 3
…intenance of Bootstrap announced the official release of the framework’s third version, and it came on steroids, let’s see what we’re getting.What’s New?First off, the most important changes you’re going to find in the new Bootstrap release is the support for responsive websites, as a matter of fact the responsive…
Getting Started With New Relic in 30 Minutes
…ing on a Rails app a few years ago and someone floated the idea of using this new service that had appeared on the scene. It was called New Relic and they were promising to give you more insight into the performance of your Rails app, than you ever could…
Resources to Get You Up to Speed in AngularJS
…ing me to look at is AngularJS. It aims to make building complex web apps easier but from experience, I know that most frameworks have a learning curve. It's never just dive in and code.As such, I wanted to complile a list of resources which I've found that I'll be…
Node.js: Better Performance With Socket.IO and doT
…ing client-side templates and WebSockets. In this tutorial, I will show you how.IntroductionWe will begin by transforming a preexisting application to be faster and more durable under high traffic. I will show you how to locate pieces of code which could be modified to improve the app. Start by downloading…
Maintainable Automated UI Tests
…ing and this skepticism was born out of a few failed attempts. I would write some automated UI tests for desktop or web applications and a few weeks later I would rip them out of the codebase because the cost of maintaining them was too high. So I thought that…
Essential Meteor Performance Tips
…in production or cannot be scaled.All of my hacks and findings are blogged at MeteorHacks.Recently, I’ve worked on some improvements which make Meteor production ready. I hacked into Meteor and changed some of the internals to make it perform better. Also, I’ve tried and tested several proven web scaling techniques…
Tips to Avoid Brittle UI Tests
…In the last article I talked about a few ideas and patterns, like the Page Object pattern, that help write maintainable UI tests. In this article we are going to discuss a few advanced topics that could help you write more robust tests, and troubleshoot them when they fail:We discuss…
The Learning Conundrum
…ing in information technology professionally in 1989, things were pretty easy in terms of choosing a direction to head into. At least in my area (South Florida), you went into one of the following areas:Network and systems managementDatabase administrationSoftware developmentProject management-related tasks (including QA work)ColdFusion was my technology of choice…