Yesterday, I attended the Online Marketing Duesseldorf trade fair. I never attended this event before, but expected to find a central place for the German and (maybe) European Online Marketing industry. Furthermore I aimed to meet one of our customers in person (we’ve been cooperating for about 8 months now, but haven’t seen each other [...]
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
there is one connected to me with Skype, coding around with some Typo3-Crap. He just said that beautiful word:
shice
You understand?!
Monday, September 24th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
1) edit /etc/fstab and insert
none /mnt/ramdisk tmpfs size=1g 0 0
2) Mount drive
mount /mnt/ramdisk
3) configure /etc/my.cnf
tmpdir = [...]
Monday, September 24th, 2007 | Posted in SQL | No Comments »
If the performance of an existing MySQL based system is critical and someone aims to avoid the I/O bottleneck: the MySQL-Engine uses on disk temporary tables for some operations. Use the explain-syntax to detect the details of your queries which might be generating temporary tables and look for “Using temporary”.
Once you found them, check if [...]
Monday, September 24th, 2007 | Posted in SQL | No Comments »
is to use the mail relay of your ISP.
We host our mailserver internally at our office. Therefore we are sending emails from an dynamic IP range of our ISP. Usually these IP ranges are identified as spam hosts by pages like spamhaus.org.
To avoid this problem you can send out email via the (usually provided) [...]
Thursday, September 20th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
In the last days I was reading a lot about current internet trends, movers & shakers, conepts and the hippest features. And there were two things, where I really think they are going to be a great deal in the internet during the next years.
What was very impressing to me, were the enourmous capabilities of [...]
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 | Posted in User Experience | No Comments »
If you are running Symfony on a production system and want to speed it up, you are probably willing to do the following:
1) Enable APC
To enable the ByteCache – System called APC just install it using PECL after you intalled apache2-dev and php5-dev
pecl install apc.
This will cache all your php-files as precompiled versions thus avoiding [...]
Friday, September 14th, 2007 | Posted in Projects, SQL, Symfony | No Comments »
We decided to implement Review Board (by VMWare) to use for our code reviews because code review inside trac was like a pain in the …
The installation took some time, because we were using Trac on the same machine and had to convert our existing SQLite Trac DBs. Furthermore we were setting up Apache with [...]
Friday, September 14th, 2007 | Posted in Django, Frameworks, Python | 1 Comment »
While reading this very inspiring article in wired magazine, I remembered a British Venture Capitalist Consultant told me once while talking about yoosic and potential future developments:
Building up your own community is one of the hardest things you can try to accomplish, why don’t you go simply where the users and communities are and integrate [...]
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 | Posted in PHP, Projects | No Comments »
On Friday we will take place in the Django sprint – if you are around here and don’t like sitting alone at home… join our team for 24 hours (Arthur and Sebstian) while helping to develop the Django project and getting lots of bugs fixed.
Coffee, Water, Progressive Sound and a Konsum across the street are [...]
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 | Posted in Django, Frameworks, Projects, Python | 1 Comment »