Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

CakePHP mod_rewrite optimization

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

CakePHP is great, but the default installation has a performance issue that is very easy to resolve, and should be fixed in any production installation of a CakePHP application. The solution is very simple. In the default install, there is a file in the webroot called .htaccess. It contains mod_rewrite rules, ...

Gnome still wins

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

One of my friends convinced me to try out KDE again. I've never been real settled on a window manager for Linux, alternating between Gnome, KDE, and other random 'lightweight' WMs. But, I figured I'd give KDE another shot since I've been with Gnome for a while. Unfortunately, KDE 4.1 and ...

The Importance Of Backups

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

As you probably didn't notice, given that I don't think anyone reads my blog... my server has been having issues over the last several days. The saga started on Sunday evening, when I got a call from the server owner that it had locked up. It had done this before ...