http://kingler.net Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:08:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Continued from WordCamp 2007: Part 1 Following the HyperDB talk, Jeremy Zilar talked a bit about the blogs at New York Times that he maintained. It is interesting to note that they are running all the blogs on a single install of WordPress 2.0.5. Rashmi Sinha's talk, Designing Massively Multiplayer Social ... http://kingler.net/2007/07/29/93 Last weekend, I went to WordCamp 2007 in San Fransisco. In case you didn't get the news, WordCamp is the annual gathering of WordPress bloggers and developers. This year's event was packed with 2 days of great talks, but I only got the chance to attend the second day, which ... http://kingler.net/2007/07/24/92 The graphical programming tool, Labview, is great for scientific instrumentation, because it is easy to use and yet very powerful and feature rich. However, the graphical interface sometimes can be a hassle, especially when you want to do complicated mathematical operations. Like a look at the example here for ... http://kingler.net/2007/05/30/91 National Instrument High Speed DIO drivers can read and write a specialized file format HWS (Hierarchical Waveform Storage). It is actually a subset implementation of the famous HDF5, which is best data format for large scientific data (we are talking about terabytes here). Anyway, as I started playing with .hws file ... http://kingler.net/2007/05/22/90 The other day, one of our lab engineers brought an old book over. It is the 1968 Trident! In case you are too young to know the name (just like me), Trident is the Year Book for graduates of UCSD at that time. 1968 is actually a very important year in ... http://kingler.net/2007/05/04/89 To improve the PHP performance, I started playing with APC (Alternative PHP Cache) and memcached recently. However, to install the APC extension and PHP-Memcache client on Debian Sarge turned out to be not that trivial. Here I'd like to share my experience. It serves as my own personal record as ... http://kingler.net/2007/04/28/88 The combination of rPath Builder and VMWare Player is a perfect tool for quick web development and distribution, and a quick way to play with Linux right on your desktop. When trying to build the Ultimate WordPress MU (MultiUser) Appliance, I started to learn rBuilder Online, which I found is not ... http://kingler.net/2007/04/22/85 Visit here for details. A screenshot of the main index page for the Virtual Appliance. http://kingler.net/2007/02/28/86 Tomorrow will be the first day of the Year of the Boar. Wish everyone a wonderful and fruitful year ahead! Image credit: The Boar Year 2007 by ~ysanau on deviantART http://kingler.net/2007/02/16/84 Although my site doesn't really get much traffic, I tried to improve the site response. The best way I found was to cache your site using the WP-Cache-2 Plugin by Ricardo Galli. For a blog site, most contents usually won't change very often. Even if you are really energetic and passionate, one ... http://kingler.net/2007/01/12/80