Posts tagged: php

I’m currently looking for one or more IP.Board modification developers, or PHP developers with knowledge of IP.Board, to take on a number of freelance projects for me. These are for client web sites who have asked me for modifications to be built, you’ll be given the opportunity to price the individual projects yourself. I’ll deal [...]

I spent a couple of hours tonight putting together a simple web site profiling tool. It allows you to see some useful information about a page, including it’s server IP address and location, the domain name contact, and some of the outgoing links from that site. It’s worth noting that the tool crawls roughly five [...]

Just wanted to post a quick note to say that Wade, Asim and I are going to be at the PHP North West conference in Manchester tomorrow. If anyone reading this is coming, drop me a note and we’ll look out for you at the conference, especially if you’re currently looking for a developer job [...]

Alongside my work on our current crawler, Wade has been rewriting the system to make better use of what we’ve learned so far, and make a number of changes: The current codebase is a mess, many cron jobs running terribly written classes, across two separate crawler systems. The new system is neatly organised with models [...]

I posted last week about our work on scaling our crawler application and it’s corresponding MySQL database, but left it with very little conclusion, apart from that Memcached is good. I wanted to follow up with some of the changes we made on Thursday and Friday. Having run the code with the changes we made [...]