Apparently, you can’t use a global Javascript variable named “media” in Chrome 5. In all Chrome version prior to version 5, this was not an issue.
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VMware ESXi vs XenServer
A run through the pros and cons of VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer. And why we redeem ESXi for XenServer.
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Optimized by-value Assignments in PHP
In programming some variable types are passed by value, others by reference. Using one or the other has a number of implications. This article handles about the implications of passing variables by value on speed and memory usage in PHP.
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Page Speed Suggestions in Google Webmaster Tools
Google added a new labs feature to Webmaster Tools: Site Performance. Besides showing how fast (or slow) your site is, it also gives you some page speed suggestions.
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Debugging PHP SoapClient
When working with SOAP Web Services, it’s sometimes handy to see the raw SOAP request sent by the client and the raw SOAP response received from the server. This makes debugging your SOAP server or SOAP client that much easier.
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VMware Server Disk IO Performance
After adding some guests to our VMware Server installation (more information about the installation of VMware Server in Ubuntu) I noticed it becoming realy slow. Even when the guests weren’t realy doing something, it was slow. Continue reading
Install VMware Server on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
Recently I had to install VMware Server 1.0.6 and the Management User Interface (MUI) on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) 64bit edition. Not all went well, but I found some really great information from other people struggling with the same problems. But because all this information is scattered around, I decided to make this post as a compilation of all the information I needed to successfully install VMware Server 1.0.6 and the Management User Interface (MUI) on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Continue reading
Server Side Language Detection with Google Language API
Yesterday Google announced a new AJAX API for translation and language detection. It’s a Javascript API to translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage. But I need server side language detection of a text using PHP and the Google AJAX Language API. Continue reading
Move a PostgreSQL database to a different tablespace
Did you ever need to move a PostgreSQL database from one tablespace to another? Well I had, last week. It is so much work to do it all by hand, especially when you have 350+ tables with an average of 2 indexes per table. This had to be automated. Continue reading