http://www.openxpc.org code is poetry! Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:28:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the openxpc projects comes out with a new wordpress theme. Check it out! [Lausitzblog] http://www.openxpc.org/2009/04/lausitzblog-new-theme/ Load balancing is perhaps one of the trickiest things in building a scalable system. But the problem with load balancing in database traffic can easily solved with this code snippet: function db_cluster_connect($cluster,$usr,$pw){ //<array>,<string>,<string> shuffle($cluster); //shuffle the array (list) of available hosts foreach($cluster as $host){ if($link = mysql_connect($host,$usr,$pw)) return $link; } return false; } http://www.openxpc.org/2008/09/load-balancing-with-multiple-database-server/ Another idea to optimize webapplications is putting the CSS on the top of a webpage and the JS at the end of the page. The trick is, that the browser doesn't stop rendering the page for loading a javascript file. If the page is rendered, the browser requests the javascript ... http://www.openxpc.org/2008/08/optimize-webapplications-part-2/ A tricky way to optimize web applications is to generate .js and .css files with PHP. The particular rule here is to set the expires header in the future, so the browser isn't downloading these files again till the expires day of the header is arrived. If the browser cache ... http://www.openxpc.org/2008/07/optimize-web-applications-part-1/ Welcome everybody this is the open extended power core blog. OpenXPC is a new and fresh engineering team, that's working on a couple of software products. The field of intrests is very wide. The engineers work on some PHP, C#, Java and MYSQL projects... however the goal isn't a commercial ... http://www.openxpc.org/2008/07/open-extended-power-core-goes-online/