wade womersley – york based software engineer
Josh began by using the dictionary definition of simplicity (as given by Wikipedia) pointing out that the word is often used as a derogatory statement. He then went onto “clarity of expression” and that striving for it while programming is something a lot of people do but never quite seem to achieve. He spoke of … Read More “#PHPUK2010 Part 1” »
I recently posted an article about using BINARY(16) for storing MD5’s as unique identifiers instead of simple integer ID’s (usually auto increment); in that article I touched on one of the benefits, reducing JOIN’s, but there are other reasons for doing it too, so I thought I’d post an article discussing purely the reasons behind … Read More “MySQL and Binary(16) – The Reasons/Benefits/Drawbacks (#mysql)” »
Over the past few months at work, we’ve seen our database grown from silly big to really silly big, it’s still a way to go to get to the size of the big boys such as Facebook etc. but it’s still a database stored in MySQL that most day-to-day PHP programmers would avoid like a … Read More “MySQL – Binary(16) and scalability” »
A few months ago at work we realised the need for lots of “nodes” (servers) in the UK and in the US initially. We have a lot of data processing that we need to do and we worked out it would be faster and cheaper if we could distribute the work over lots of servers … Read More “Superb VPS (Virtual Private Server) Provider – VPS.net Review” »
I was just Googling trying to find out if anyone had wrote an application that wraps PuTTY enabling it to support stored sessions in its taskbar icon right click menu when I came across this extremely useful program instead: PuTTY Connection Manager. It’s a very simple application for Windows that sits over PuTTY but provides … Read More “For PuTTY Users – PuTTY Connection Manager” »
Yes, you heard it right, the game engine that usually costs to license is now totally free for anyone to use (without any payments at all for non-commercial use). If you decide to make a game and release it, they’ll let you earn $5,000 dollars gratis, after that they want a 25% royalty – I … Read More “Epic Games releases Unreal Development Toolkit for FREE” »
I’ve updated my Link Checker (site crawler) located at https://wade.one/tools/linkchecker to allow downloading of the data it finds as CSV files. So all redirect URL’s, 404’s and meta data for all pages can be downloaded. The links are at the bottom of the page after the initial output of data. Use the Link Checker here.
I’ve been stumbling around for new stuff to use in the world of webmastery this morning and stumbled across this rather useful tool. A few weeks ago I attended PHPNW along with some guys from work, one of the talks at the end of the day was by a Microsoft guy who was trying to … Read More “Adobe Browser Labs – Better than Microsoft Expression” »
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” »
