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Benchmarking PHP Frameworks

There are many reasons for choosing one framework over another, personally, my primary concern is making the development cycle as painless as possible but I can't really ignore some of the real world implications of using framewo...read more

Rails and Apache

In what appears to be a very useful find 'Phusion Passenger' offers powerful (open source) deployment option for your ROR sites. It's an out-the-box Apache module with a 2 line install. Paired ...read more

Useful bit of Javascript

Never thought about using javascript for this before but I had a requirement to force the window to the top of the page whilst executing a javascript onClick event.  Very simple but thought I'd note it down for future refere...read more

Quick jquery Gallery

I had a look at some of the gallery plugins available for jquery and although impressed with some of the cool stuff available decided after trying a few I needed something else.I di...read more

Massive CPU usage when updating Fedora using YUM/RPMQ

We noticed that YUM and RPMQ processes were using a massive amount CPU between them, the most likely the reason is that the rpm somehow hanged or was killed while it was running updating the system and left the repo info in an ...read more