August 7, 2008
Memcached, MediaWiki, and MySQL for optimizing Database
Today, I saw that Hackszine’s Jason Striegel has postsed a blog post about Memcached and MySQL. Well, basically Memcached is an open-source software for your web server that allows you to cache almost any MySQL query. In other words, it caches your MySQL queries. But to do this, you do need to check the Memcached cache before doing the act ... More
April 24, 2008
Web2.0 Expo 2008 - SpringNote - Wiki-based Online Notes
HeeKyong Yoon from SpringNote.com, was nice enough to chat with me on their cool “wiki” product, SpringNote: Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode FYI, SpringNote.com is a subsidiary of NcSoft.com, the creators of legendary online game, Lineage. Well, I tried out SpringNote, here’ ... More
March 2, 2008
WikiLeaks - Wiki for leaked documents
I just found out that WikiLeaks, a Wiki site that collects thousands of leaked documents, had been suspended in the U.S., but the judge just overturned and they are back on. Anyways, it’s an interesting Wiki site and you should check it out. The site resumed U.S. operations shortly after 5 p.m. Pacific Coast time. Its overseas servers were n ... More
February 24, 2008
DIY Linux HACK - HOW TO optimize your Wordpress Blog, MediaWiki, or any other high load website with Compression!
Well, we did a lot of server hacking before with some MySQL, eAccelerator, and httpd. There’s a lot of major blogs out there I have checked using Web Page Compression Tool that are not using compression. (For one, I checked John Chow’s blog) Try to check one of your posts instead of checking your main URL as the tool is funky with roo ... More
February 4, 2008
The biggest pyramid “splog” scam in this world today - StumbleUpon =Spambleupon
Okay, I will have to tell you the truth tonight about one of the biggest social networking sites, SpambleUpon, or most people call it, StumbleUpon. They are making so much money off bloggers, basically StumbleUpon “scrapes” bloggers’ content and makes millions of dollars off you! Even though no one has really “sued” ... More
