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I've had to push out a minor update to HB-Cumulus as I've just discovered a little bug which causes the HB-Cumulus settings to be deleted when another plugin is deactivated. You can get the latest revision from the HB-Cumulus project page. As this is a new release, I've closed comments on the 1.0 post. If you encounter any problems, please ensure you update to rev 1.1 and if the problem still exists, leave a comment here.

I used to be a text editor PHP/HTML/CSS developer. By text editor, I mean I only ever used a basic editor like Vi/Vim (via ssh), jEdit (at work) and TextMate (at home) for all my development. I've tried several PHP specific IDEs, but could never find one that I felt comfortable with, and that would work with a certain degree of consistency across platforms. However, that's now changed thanks to NetBeans. Continue reading ►

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you my first Habari plugin: HB-Cumulus. HB-Cumulus is a Flash-based tag cloud for Habari that displays your tag cloud in a rotating sphere just like the one shown here. [WP-CUMULUS] (The example demonstrated here is actually WP-Cumulus as this site is still on Wordpress, but the appearance and functionality is identical in HB-Cumulus, with slightly different configuration options) HB-Cumulus is a port of the brilliant WP-Cumulus by Roy Tanck and supports pretty much everything WP-Cumulus does. Further details, and download links can be found on the HB-Cumulus project page. If you encounter any... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 3 Sep 2008 - 11 Sep 2008: 10 Principles of the PHP Masters - Some very useful PHP tips here. Some new, some old. Google restores Chrome's shine - That's better. Now you can still keep ownership of everything you already own. Hadoop Live CD at OpenSolaris.org - Distributed computing on a LiveCD. What a great way to test the waters without actually having to install anything. Happy 5th Birthday, DTrace - Wow!!! DTrace is 5 years old already. Wow time flies. Burned by Chrome - All your bases are belong to us. Not the nicest... Continue reading ►

If you've been following the developments of Habari, you'll be pleased to hear Habari 0.5 is now out the door and waiting for you to download and use. Habari 0.5 is a vast improvement on the previous stable release (0.4.1) so if you tried 0.4.1 and didn't think much of it, I recommend you give 0.5 a go. You'll be pleasantly surprised. If you host with Joyent, be sure to check out my post on installing Habari on Joyent.

Well, after running with ALL options in the wp_options table set to no for autoload for about 3 days, I can say it doesn't really make much difference. If anything, there may be a slight decrease in performance, but nothing broke that I could see, and there really wasn't a significant difference in memory usage either. I've reverted back to the original settings. I'll have to dabble with the Wordpress code itself to see if there are any global variables that don't really need to be global at all. I've done some initial investigation and there are tons of stuff ... Continue reading ►

Well, in a bid to see if Wordpress really needs to preload all those options set to autoload, and to see if it makes a difference on the memory consumption I detailed earlier. I've set them all to "no" on this site so nothing is autoloaded. If you encounter any problems, please let me know. If I don't hear anything, I can only assume they don't have any adverse effect.

I've had a busy couple of afternoons quashing bugs and enhancing phpSmug further. This release sees the re-introduction of anonymous method call caching (Ticket #18), enableCache() now checks cache directory is writeable (Ticket #19), die_on_error is now acknowledged consistently. If die_on_error is NOT set, it's up to the application developer to check getErrorCode and getErrorMessage after each method call. (Ticket #20), I've added clearCache() function to easily empty the cache. (Ticket #22) and I've Stopped caching the results of failed method calls when die_on_error is set. (Ticket #23).

Fixed a tiny typo I made by including an extra "}" in phpSmug (line 203) (Ticket #17). This has been removed in phpSmug 1.0.9.

I've updated phpSmug to improve the caching and to take into account the SessionID 6 hour inactivity timeout after rolandk98 brought up a caching issue. I've also fixed a problem with escaping apostrophes when using a database for caching.