I was helping a client yesterday set up a VPN tunnel only to have it constantly disconnected. The client was located outside of the country. For the sake of avoiding throttling and saving on CPU, we were using the Blowfish cipher and it kept on getting disconnected. I found this rather strange as I’ve never…
Year: 2012
Completely off topic.. Just a personal note.
My bird said her first words today. Ironically, they weren’t “I love you” which I was trying to teach her, but rather… “RTFM”.. How Ironic. I have no idea where she picked it up, but it’s clear she did from somewhere. She also hums along to the music that make my heart hurt. Whenever the…
Update 2: Programming and Database Mistakes
The biggest mistake you can make to cause problems with performance as a developer is to use joins. Inner or Outer Joins take up a lot of CPU. The transaction queries also take over 1000% time to complete in many cases. If you have to join tables, you need to revisit your DB architecture. The…
The most common mistake in Applications and Databases in general
So many programmers make this mistake because they don’t seem to get it. It’s not your fault as a programmer / developer. It’s just that you’re not a DBA. You need to implement Connection pooling. It makes such a huge difference in the way your DB performance and app works it’s amazing. So here are…
Database Backed Web Applications Advice
Here’s the scenario. You’ve got a dedicated server running windows in a server farm (generic dedicated server provider). You have mysql + asp or php app running all on the same server. Raid 1 mirroring and 2 GB of ram. You have to have windows, because your application supports it. Sound Familiar? It’s a problem…
International Text solutions – A solution
The thing that kills me more than anything is the International Texting thing today. You get charged upwards of .50 to text international. So here’s the solution for all of you people out there. Skype. Just install skype and register your cell phone number to it. (requires validation, but worth it). When you need to…
A Perfect Example of Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
Netflix went down yesterday due to power problems at Amazon’s Virginia Datacenter. This of course caused an outage for some of Amazon’s EC2 customers. (Like Netflix). This is a perfect example of why Redundancy in the cloud is important. All of my customers (some of them at EC2 Virginia) stayed up and available. How? Redundancy….
VOIP Tunneling with SBO or OpenVPN?
There seems to be much talk these days of tunneling and Voice-Over-IP(VOIP) most of it for the singular purpose of keeping the communications secure or hidden from the nasty overlords of the Internet. There seems to be two camps in this and two main technologies. Session Bandwidth Optimization and OpenVPN. Both do similar things, but…
The Browser Wars; Which One is Best?
I’ve always believed competition is good. It breed ingenuity, evolution, and value for the customer. Mostly, it comes in the form of price and features. There has always been one special niche of the competitive space I’ve always found interesting; The Web Browser. When they first came out, they went from free to pay to…
Backing Down from WordPress 3.4 to 3.3.2 [solution]
This post assumes you’re running CentOS. So modify the commands accordingly. I also assume you have your wordpress install in /var/www/something.com After a bit of a while I finally decided to take the leap again to WordPress 3.4 from 3.3.2 only to be disappointed again. There are still some issues they need to work out….