wade womersley – york based software engineer
I’ve just finished writing version one of my link checker tool and have now launched it on my site. The tool will parse a given URL, extract all links on that page that point to the same domain and follow them, and keep doing that until it’s finished. It will then show you the results … Read More “Link Checker – Free Tool Launched on Site” »
So lunch was ‘so-so’ – the dauphinoise were undercooked, the duck sauce was too strong and overpowered the duck (probably good as they were rather cheap legs.) “Optimising your front end performance” was a very mixed talk. There were some generalisations that were seriously poor such as “80% of access to sites by end users … Read More “PHPNW 09 – Food and Optimising front end performance” »
Just started in the 3rd talk today by a guy called Rowan Merewood (twitter link). I had no idea he worked at Plus.net – for those of you who don’t know me, just take a look on Google for wade womersley plus.net. Unfortunately that means I’m biased to this talk as he’s talking about a … Read More “PHPNW09 – PHP North-West 09 Conference” »
Ubuntu…it’s a great Linux OS to use on servers due to its speed and simplicity – personal preference based on no statistics, only personal use. However, one thing Linux drives me mad with is software RAID. It’s taken me the better part of a day to set up a few RAID partitions, two of which … Read More “Linux RAID, MySQL” »
InnoISAM is what I need, a happy medium between InnoDB and MyISAM. I need the speed of inserts of InnoDB with the speed of selects of MyISAM – no HEAP will not work because the JOIN that I do results in the HEAP table being converted into MyISAM. You get two tables that deal with … Read More “InnoISAM / District 9” »
Ah Friday’s, it’s always a good day in the office, everyone (at least in the dev team) know it’s Friday, and most weeks, Dan’s behaviour is a tell tale sign. Friday also means pub lunch day, something to look forward to…usually – however today was a sad day, our usual pub, the Wellington, let us … Read More “Hidden things, lack of fries and pointless data” »
Today’s work was a standard day, well except for the morning, actually no, that was a standard morning too, things didn’t work too well, they needed fixing, during which there were random jokes at Ben’s expense due to his pure love of graphs. With some help from Remo (my team manager) though, we did manage … Read More “Today’s musings” »
PHP and Serializing…don’t try and store the result in a plain text file, there’s just a chance you may end up storing NUL so when you go to read a line, you’ll end up only reading part of it (the serialized object had a stack trace in it from an exception.) Incidentally, don’t try and … Read More “Another day, another group of PHP “funness”” »
The title isn’t really correct as, well, they’re not fundamentals…however they’re not fun so that was my best effort to get sarcasm into the title. I love programming in PHP, and I must admit, I do enjoy finding solutions to problems that most people would probably tear their hair out over; but from time-to-time, PHP … Read More “PHP FUNdamentals” »
