June 30th, 2004 | Published in Code Development
Optimize with Shark: Big Payoff, Small Effort Apple provides an excellent, free performance tool called Shark that tells you—within two minutes—what functions you should concentrate your optimization efforts on. Experience working with developers indicates that most applications have performance problems that can be found in a few hours and fixed in a few days.
June 30th, 2004 | Published in Security
:: AIM Sniff : About :: AIM Sniff is a utility for monitoring and archiving AOL Instant Messenger messages across a network. You can either do a live dump (actively sniff the network) or read a PCAP file and parse the file for IM messages.
Wonder what kind of traffic a school district would see…
June 30th, 2004 | Published in Code Development
Dashboard vs. Konfabulator: “A sliding puzzle. A calculator. A clock. A little notepad. Tiny little applets — little pieces of software that are something less than full applications themselves, but which run alongside real apps and are easily accessed at any time. Obviously, Apple ripped off the idea for Dashboard. Stolen wholesale, without even the decency to mention where they took the original idea.
Way worth reading, and more and more validates my decision to subscribe to what could be considered a free service. John makes the reading more then worth the time, and the little money that I spent to make myself seem better informed. Thanks John!
(Via Daring Fireball.)
June 30th, 2004 | Published in PHP
: A HOWTO on Optimizing PHP with tips and methodologies PHP is a very fast programming language, but there is more to optimizing PHP than just speed of code execution. In this chapter, we explain why optimizing PHP involves many factors which are not code related, and why tuning PHP requires an understanding of how PHP performs in relation to all the other subsystems on your server, and then identifying bottlenecks caused by these subsystems and fixing them. We also cover how to tune and optimize your PHP scripts so they run even faster.
Good notes for reference…
June 30th, 2004 | Published in PHP
Pressed Pants: Xdebug on OS X Xdebug is a fantastic addition to PHP, which provides debugging and source code profiling information for PHP scripts. Here’s what I did to get it running on OS X
Note to self get this installed on local machine and test.
June 30th, 2004 | Published in PHP
PHPEverywhere: Squeezing code with xdebug: “In a new posting from PHPEverywhere today, John talks about some of the issues he (and the other phpLens developers) are running up against - code optimization.”
Have to get xDebug installed on my machine, looks like a good tool…
(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)
June 30th, 2004 | Published in Blogroll, Code Development
…what the widgets actually are written in. They are Web pages, plain and simple (with extra features thrown in for added measure). Apple’s own web site says “build your own widgets using the JavaScript language”, but that’s sort of misleading. The widgets are HTML+CSS+JS. They are not some JS-only thing. In other words, each widget is just a web page, and so you have the full power of WebKit behind each one… CSS2, DOM2, JS, HTML, XMLHttpRequest, Flash, Quicktime, Java, etc. I’ll have a lot more to say later on, but I thought it important to clear that up right up front, since a lot of people were asking me about it in email and such.”
There is a lot more differences that the Konfabulator clan are missing and could learn from…
(Via Confessions of a Mozillian.)
June 29th, 2004 | Published in Software
Software Garden Products: ListGarden RSS Feed Generator The ListGardenâ„¢ program is a tool for creating and maintaining RSS feeds. Written in Perl, it is an easy to use open source authoring tool operated with a browser interface that can run locally on a computer running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux, or accessed remotely through a web server.
Neat tool need to look at more closely
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