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 next week. Merry Christmas everybody, and yes, thank you to all trailer truck drivers out there.
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.
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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 optimizing the platform to a point where it sings (literally), is a real undertaking (or thankfully, a neverending chore). Performance, disk I/O, database access latency, network speed and carefully programmed algorithms are all part of that package, but one of the most impressive upgrades is the use of memory based caching, specifically with Memcached.
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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 of course, without the name of the plugin to look up the files, our beloved plugin kept missing the mark. I hope it helps those poor souls out there some to get their code in better shape.
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 overall better user experience. We appreciate your interest and hope to listen to your feedback.
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 database enthusiasts together to harness the power of MySQL and celebrate the huge MySQL ecosystem. (excerpt from http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2009/public/content/home?CMP=ILC-conf_promobox_ormhm)
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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.
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