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Emacs on windows.

2010-02-12T11:24:00.003-05:00

So I like to work on my server as it has automated backups and it keeps all my work in one spot. The only issue that I have is I don't always like sitting at the server to do code. So to solve this I installed a X11 server on my Windows laptop. This was rather easy to do and now I get the use of my mouse with emacs. Here is the processes:1. Download Xming2. Download Xming-Fonts (this is not

Hip Hop PHP

2010-02-10T10:06:00.002-05:00

I hope eveyone has seen this and if not you must go look at what has been released from Facebook.Hip Hop PHPIf someone has tried it or has results they would like to share let me know.

Setting Up Emacs for Erlang

2010-02-05T10:30:00.004-05:00

Here is what you need to add to you .emacs file in you home dir to get emacs to do syntax highlighting and compiling.(setq load-path (cons "/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.5/emacs" load-path))(setq erlang-root-dir "")(setq exec-path (cons "/bin" exec-path))(require 'erlang-start)(custom-set-variables '(transient-mark-mode t))(setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t)(global-font-lock-mode 1)In case you

NIC Interrupts on Multi-Core

2009-02-20T13:10:00.000-05:00

So in the last post I talked about how to detect the problem, in this post I'll talk about some solutions. This list is not ordered from easiest to hardest nor do I suggest just doing one of these will solve your problem.Hardware SolutionGet more servers.Turn on Jumbo Frames.Find a Network card that supports MSI-X.Software SolutionsHack the Network drivers and Epoll.Use Keep-Alive and Connection

New Network Card

2009-02-09T10:30:00.001-05:00

Sorry about the delay in posting work has been keeping me real busy. Also testing solutions to the NIC interrupts issue has sucked more time then expected.Here is a new product that could help with some of your network issues.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/020609-commex.html?hpg1=bnz

NIC Interrupts on Multi-Core

2009-01-20T12:00:00.002-05:00

I wonder how many people out there have this issue and don't even know it. Let me explain what happening and how you would detect the problem and then suggest some ways to go about fixing it.The easiest way to go about seeing if you have the problem is to cat the /proc/interrupts file.[blog@web ~]$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 0: 165886477 0

7 Steps Of Scaling

2009-01-13T09:45:00.002-05:00

I'm sure by now everyone has seen this but I should have it here as a reference.7-stages-of-scaling-web-applicationsBy John Engales CTO, Rackspace. Good presentation of the stages a typical successful website goes through:* Stage 1 - The Beginning: Simple architecture, low complexity. no redundancy. Firewall, load balancer, a pair of web servers, database server, and internal storage.* Stage 2 -

PHP print vs echo

2009-01-12T10:15:00.009-05:00

This is a big topic for anyone writing PHP so I thought I would do my own test. I ran each 3 times ignoring the first run. With this simple test it would seams that The Data follows.PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Jul 16 2008 19:52:52)Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP GroupZend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend TechnologiesPrint$i = 0;for($i;$i<10000000;$i++){ print "Hello World.\n";}[blog@

XSL Cache Anyone

2009-01-09T10:30:00.000-05:00

So here a project put out by the Old Media people for all of us New Media people. If you are using the XSL functions in php you could see a 2.5x boost in performance. I have yet to try this package but if you have any benchmarking results you would like to share email them to me and I'll include them into this post.XSL Cache

Call For Topics

2009-01-08T02:30:00.002-05:00

So for the first post I would like to make a call for topics. Why might you ask, well it will help me with getting this blog started. There are many topics that can be covered everything from power usage to using echo vs. print statements in php. I am planing to post twice a week if time allows. Help me get this blog rolling.Email me at blog@scaletheblog.com