'Developer' Category

  • Ruby

    July 23, 2015
    Anoying things about ruby: i++ does not work! backward version compatibility Regexp not as powerfull than perl Handling types

    posted in Developer by nico

  • Bash completion

    June 2, 2015
    To prevent (on osx) the symlinks pause when you hit `tab`, add the following to your ~/.inputrc: set mark-symlinked-directories on

    posted in Developer, Linux, System Administrator by nico

  • CSS Color’s Name

    January 29, 2015
    Color Name HEX Mix AliceBlue  #F0F8FF   AntiqueWhite  #FAEBD7   Aqua  #00FFFF   Aquamarine  #7FFFD4   Azure  #F0FFFF   Beige  #F5F5DC   Bisque  #FFE4C4   Black  #000000   BlanchedAlmond  #FFEBCD   Blue  #0000FF   BlueViolet  #8A2BE2   Brown  #A52A2A   BurlyWood  #DEB887   CadetBlue  #5F9EA0   Chartreuse  #7FFF00   Chocolate  #D2691E   Coral  #FF7F50   […]

    posted in Developer by nico

  • Sphinx Search

    April 13, 2014
    I use Sphinx to search text in 5 millions records. Mysql is not as good, sphinx is a deticated read only database to search text. The performance are so good, that I use sphinx for everything, even for regular queries. I managed to reduce the load of my servers by a factor of 10 ! […]

    posted in Database, Developer, System Administrator by nico

  • Memcache

    April 13, 2014
    I was having performace issue in 2008 on my websites, the traffic was getting hight and I had no budget the get more servers. I already used an architecture with squid as a load balancer, and mysql slaves severs. With no budget, I had to find a way to improve the load performace with the […]

    posted in Developer, System Administrator by nico

  • Perl

    April 13, 2014
    When I need performance and I need to code complicated things, Perl is always my choice. I like the syntax and miss so much map and grep when I’m programing on with other languages. I used perl for every background task like matching millions of records, downloading giga bytes of xml with fork processes, writing […]

    posted in Developer by nico

  • Php

    April 13, 2014
    I choosed Php to develop websites.I never been a big fan, coming from Perl, but considering alternatives it does the job when you have your own functions and classes. I use php as a template language. Pros: It’s populare It’s mature Easy to find some developers It’s a good couple with Apache Cons: No real […]

    posted in Developer by nico

  • Mysql

    April 13, 2014
    MySQL is a database wich support master/slave replication system. Lock the database to run a command: FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK; SYSTEM sh -c ‘backup.sh’; UNLOCK TABLES; Pros: The master/slave replication is mature and powerfull Innodb provide good performance on big tables Cons: Can’t find any for my use

    posted in Database, Developer, System Administrator by nico

  • WordPress

    April 13, 2014
    WordPress is a great solution to generate quickly a website with articles. Wordpress use php and a mysql database. Here is the database scheme. You can find many plugins for wordpress to suit it to you need. You can easly create some template for the apparence, or you can just download templates made by others.

    posted in Database, Developer, Framework by nico