http://benalman.com/news/2010/11/immediately-invoked-function-expression/
immediately invoked function expression fun
October 2nd, 2011git cheatsheet fun
April 19th, 2011NH CSA
March 8th, 2011
PHP optimized files
January 28th, 2011Why exactly are my php optimized files taking twice as long as raw source when being included/required? Time for some investigation…
So, got a support ticket open. Pretty much across the board my ubuntu encoded files running on freebsd, are twice as slow as identical raw source during require/include, but not execution!
–update– 2011-02-08
Not just twice as slow on freebsd, same on an aws setup linux using all the latests builds.
–update– 2011-03-06
For those hitting this page, the issue appears to be that encoded PHP files encoded by Zend Guard are taking twice as long to include/require on a linux or freebsd server. For me, with larger size files, this is causing a noticeable slow down in request processing because I am not using an opcode cache. I am attempting to establish if this is expected behavior or a bug…
–update– 2011-03-08
So, the final verdict is that this is not a bug per say, and just a reality of life of encoded files. It was the question I posed originally, but it took quite a while to get there as a final answer. At least in my cases, zend encoded files without also using an opcode cache, make little sense from a performance measure. Which is a pity as they ended support on FreeBSD also. Time for other options to be considered I suppose.
Gasoline Graphs
November 24th, 2010Historic data from my 10 year old Cavalier, until it encountered costly repairs:
A close up of the data at the end, showing my new corolla stats:
Using the old data, I was able to keep a close eye on how my driving habits influenced my gas consumption. Information allows informed actions, this simplest of data is the cause of a lot of wasted efforts addressing the wrong problems and coming to even more wrong conclusions. Next on my list is a wifi temperature network for the farm house.
iPhone, don’t panic!
June 24th, 2010So here I sit on the couch, moonlight spilling in over the summer heat. Posting this message from a portable electronic device, an order of magnitude more powerful than the unix machines I explored and learned on.
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120 hours of outage
March 10th, 2010
So we lost power, then had a tree fall on our house. Well, two trees,… one on each side. Roof damage, window damage, but no one was hurt and the house took the load well. Still dealing with cleanup, insurance, repairs, and the aftermath of 5 days without power. Read the rest of this entry »
New Home in NH
November 4th, 2009
The Old Farm House
It needs some work and some TLC, but we have a new home in NH. Just need to finish moving over stuff and we can get to work on fixing and documenting. This post is mainly for those that aren’t following me on facebook.
New Kitten, Meow…
April 14th, 2009We’ve got a new family pet, our little Sputnik.
Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices
March 24th, 2009“If you thought that the previous episode of uncontrolled debt expansion, globalized Ponzi schemes, and economic hollowing-out was silly, then I predict that you will find this next episode of feckless grasping at macroeconomic straws even sillier. Except that it won’t be funny: what is crashing now is our life support system: all the systems and institutions that are keeping us alive. And so I don’t recommend passively standing around and watching the show unless you happen to have a death wish.”