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The Pub / Re: Php and HipHop
« on April 7th, 2011, 03:58 PM »
eAccelerator isn't really practical because it doesn't include key-value storage caches any more while APC does.

Note that opcode caches (which is what these are) help but they won't provide the purebred performance that Hiphop will, though they're vastly more approachable than Hiphop is.
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Features / Re: Recycling board by default
« on April 7th, 2011, 03:34 PM »
Interesting idea, I hadn't actually thought of doing it like that. That works for me, on all the levels.

The way I did it in SD was hackish but it has given me food for thought in other directions, actually.
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Off-topic / Re: Dr S.E. Optimisation, or How I Learned To Stop WP and love the Wedge
« on April 7th, 2011, 02:42 PM »
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Until we move to a final state where it's pretty good and optimized and stuff, it might still break in inherited stylings.
For the most part there's not a lot different, it is basically colours.
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Will you be using the header block for it? Or just use CSS?
I have an image for replacing the top header, but it's mostly just CSS. I did also use another grad40 image, specifically I flipped it vertically, so it goes from light to dark, and it's in the same directory under the name grad40i.
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Off-topic / Re: Texasmans Programming Blog
« on April 7th, 2011, 02:27 PM »
Quote from CJ Jackson on April 7th, 2011, 02:24 PM
true, but the thread title does state "Programming," texasman also stated Computer Science and Networking in education. :lol:
There are systems that start counting at 2. It's all about the context ;)
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The Pub / Re: Php and HipHop
« on April 7th, 2011, 02:21 PM »
Oh, you can do some incredible stuff with it, but it does limit how you can do it.
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Archived fixes / Re: PM settings aren't saving properly
« on April 7th, 2011, 02:18 PM »
Go nuts :)
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The Pub / Re: Php and HipHop
« on April 7th, 2011, 01:47 PM »
Yeah, it's a very cool technology in general and for some uses, it's fantastic. Just, unfortunately, not here.
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Off-topic / Re: Dr S.E. Optimisation, or How I Learned To Stop WP and love the Wedge
« on April 7th, 2011, 01:43 PM »
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Here's me wondering if you've been changing it a lot.
I poked it briefly after you made Wine the default, stuff got broken, I need to sit and tweak it again to fix. I'm pretty happy with the blue colour scheme and the header, all told, so once I get it back to there, I don't see my changing it much. Where design is concerned, I'm a relatively simple creature.
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You mean, the calendar stuff?
Well, part of the calendar stuff; something like this is an ideal way to make the calendar actually usable.
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This is black comedy done 100% right.
Indeed it is... that line still sticks in my brain. I mean, what is a war room if you can't fight?
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did you try Wordpress SEO? It's freaking good!!
Right now my WP blog is 100% unmodified WP 3.1.1 (yes, ANOTHER security patch of recent times), so I'm curious to see what improvements can be made on the 'SEO' front, even knowing as I do that the concept is normally banal, I do want to make sure that we minimise the whiners as much as possible.
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The Pub / Re: Php and Hip Pop
« on April 7th, 2011, 01:39 PM »
In a word: no.

Hiphop is a compiler, it turns PHP code into C code, which you then compile.

On a single platform, a single specific VPS where you can run your own code, it becomes feasible, but it requires a number of things - firstly, eval gets thrown out the door. The concept of dynamically loading files sort of does too, any hope of customisation along with it.

The other thing is, there is an awful lot of type juggling buried inside SMF/Wedge, most of it we never notice, but anything coming out of MySQL is going to be type juggled if it's actually numeric. This can't happen in Hiphop, because C is statically typed, which means we have to explicitly handle it straight after grabbing it from MySQL. I also have a funny feeling that buffering would be handled differently which has major effects on us.
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Off-topic / Re: Dr S.E. Optimisation, or How I Learned To Stop WP and love the Wedge
« on April 7th, 2011, 09:43 AM »
Yeah, that's something we possibly should add - but it's the sort of thing I'd probably expand through the calendar, I mean, it's something of a white elephant, so making it useful would be awesome.
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Off-topic / Re: Dr S.E. Optimisation, or How I Learned To Stop WP and love the Wedge
« on April 7th, 2011, 09:36 AM »
1. Sporadically more than true bleeding edge, but over time that's the general plan.

2. I have no plans to touch the content in any way, so any doodads should be transferrable.

3. Yes, but I'm not going to go batshit crazy about it; I'm not going to suddenly start bidding on AdWords for it, nor am I going to start shifting ads via it (though, I had considered the possibility)

It's more a case of 'is it worth me messing about a bit in the meantime while Wedge's feature set matures where needed for blogging', really.
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Off-topic / Re: Texasmans Programming Blog
« on April 7th, 2011, 09:32 AM »
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LOGIC is a FOUR letter word!
Logic has five letters.


So, in essence you're talking about a mostly peer to peer networking chat with centralised authentication... which is basically what Skype is. I'd comment more but I don't have a positive attitude.
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Off-topic / Re: Dr S.E. Optimisation, or How I Learned To Stop WP and love the Wedge
« on April 7th, 2011, 02:55 AM »
Quote from live627 on April 7th, 2011, 02:51 AM
Quote from Arantor on April 7th, 2011, 02:33 AM
* Arantor also wonders who gets the title to this topic.
No? Here's a blind guess, though... knowing you like to watch Dr. Who, is it a reference from one of those episodes?
Good idea, but no. Big clue: Peter Sellers. When you hit up IMDb and find it, go get it and watch it. Very good film.

EDIT: How could you not love a film that has the line, "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
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Off-topic / Dr S.E. Optimisation, or How I Learned To Stop WP and love the Wedge
« on April 7th, 2011, 02:33 AM »
I've been wondering, before I make the move of my blog to Wedge, is it worth spending time chasing the SEO dragon?

I've got a month's worth (9, if you're wondering) blog posts already pre-written, none of them keyword rich or any of that BS (and I refuse to alter my content for that), but is it worth spending a little time with the other stuff (like we'd likely implement in Wedge anyway)?

Note that I am going to be moving it to Wedge once the blogging stuff is done, with my custom styling Worldwind, so any SEO impact by Wedge will automatically up the ante.

I wonder if we should add the month-based navigation that's in WP, might be useful.

* Arantor also wonders who gets the title to this topic.
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Off-topic / Re: Post count fever
« on April 6th, 2011, 08:16 PM »
Yup, textual content is processed slower than numeric content in the JSON functions from everything I've seen.

Would still be interested to know how unserialize and json_decode performed rather than serialize and json_encode; I spend less time writing that data than I do reading it, invariably.