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Time off the hard way, take two
Just our very innocent attempt at getting a picture of another trailer truck messing up the same light post as last year. You’ll excuse the bad pic quality, this was from a Nokia phone that I am changing as of … Continue reading
Posted in Accidents, Quality XP Development
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Installing APC Opcode cache on CentOS 5 64-bit
PHP applications of all kinds, whether they are framework or CMS (Drupal, WordPress, Joomla) based, can gain a lot of performance benefits from running a PHP opcode cache/accelerators.
Posted in Memory based caching
Tagged apache, apc, apxs, linux, memcached, memory cache, opcode cache, pear, pecl
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Subversion 1.6.4 installation – Bluehost.com & Hostmonster.com
Not for the light at heart, some assistance compiled from several sources on the Internet. Adds subversion support to your account, making version control on Bluehost and Hostmonster a reality.
Posted in Quality XP Development, Version control
Tagged bluehost, shared hosting, subversion, version control
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Increase application response time with Memcached
Our team has been working over the course of the current 2 years on several massive multi-user platforms for some of our clients. Coding the platforms is one thing, any self respecting development shop can get that done. But truly … Continue reading
Posted in Memory based caching, Website performance optimization
Tagged linux, memcached, memory cache
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Cakephp plugin models without tables
This one kept me up a few days while doing development. The documentation at the Cakephp.org site does not mention that models from a plugin referenced have to be added in the $uses array on a controller as $uses=array(‘Plugin.Model’). So … Continue reading
QXD Site Updates
The site development team at Quality XP Development proudly announces the release of their new website. Utilizing best practices and some much improved and faster site architecture, the new site promises to become more engaging with visitors and provide an … Continue reading
MySQL Conference & Expo 2009
The 5th annual MySQL Conference & Expo, co-presented by Sun Microsystems, MySQL and O’Reilly Media. Happening April 20-23, 2009 in Santa Clara, CA, at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, brings over 2,000 open source and … Continue reading
Posted in Events, MySQL, Uncategorized
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Time off – The hard way at Quality XP Development
Well, whomever said that taking time off was easy. This was us at the office after a trailer truck pretty much took out the power, our cable modem backup, and the light post fell on top of the box dishing … Continue reading
Posted in Accidents, Just for fun, Quality XP Development, Uncategorized
Tagged linkedin
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QXD Site Relaunched with new UI and functionalities
Over the past 2 years Quality XP Development, a costarrican based outfit tailoring to the custom software and database development field, has grown from a group of misfit developers (yes, we were once called that) to a fair sized consultancy shop. Continue reading