I am using Joomla for the content management, and it looks like my site is getting slow, no, not just slow, it’s SLOW. Quick check in the MySQL database showed that there is no really big tables which could cause some delays if not indexed properly or getting locked. So, next step would be naturally looking into the PHP code itself trying to identify bottlenecks. First of all – copy everything to test site – I don’t really want to shut the site down or display some debug info to the visitors. My test site is actually a linux box which is pretty old one, so it probably will run...

I just discovered interesting thing – to my shame I misspelled word “developer” (as in web developer) on my web site and for a while I was advertising myself as “web developmer“. Bad for me I guess. But interesting thing, when checking statistics, I get better position in the search results as a developMer – just because there is not a lot of pages with same typo. Just to compare – when I search for the web developer it returns over 56 millions of pages and for web developmer it’s only 4500. So, I guess if I add more words like this to my page saying...

Quite an interesting idea – to execute PHP scripts in Windows as regular exe. Behind the scenes it uses IE component, but there is no IE toolbars and you have a control on windows your application uses. Also you can create an installer, so it will look for user as a regular windows application. These days a lot of applications are actually switching to web services, so you actually do not have to install software, you can just use it from your internet browser. But I can still see quite a few uses of this tool to create client site components for the application. So, will keep this in mind and...

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