I decided to go with a very minimalist approach when I redesigned my blog, and I’ve been very happy with that decision. The new design is easier to read, easier to modify, and loads a lot faster to boot. However, I felt there were some minor improvements I could make, here’s a few things I’ve...

Facebook have just announced the release of their new PHP compiler, HipHop for PHP. News of the compiler was leaked in an interview on The Rumpus in mid january, and expanded upon by Read Write Web earlier this week. That, combined with members of the PHP core development team being invited to the Facebook headquarters yesterday, this...

A lot of web designers and developers have hated Internet Explorer 6 for years, it holds back progress on the web and is the bane of many people’s lives, so naturally we all get excited every time there’s some big news about it being phased out. Unfortunately, however, until now there’s never really been a...

This article is the last in my MySQL Load-Balanced Cluster Guide series, following on from my earlier post today on setting up MySQL Monitoring on the cluster nodes, this article is a guide to setting up the load balancer with HAProxy, using the monitoring scripts we’ve created to check the node status. HAProxy is a...

Following on from yesterday’s guide to setting up MySQL master-master replication, the first of today’s guides is how to set up a script to monitor the status of your MySQL cluster nodes, which we’ll use in the next guide to set up our proxy. On every one of your MySQL cluster nodes, follow the steps...