I am moving scrib‘s bugs, blueprints, and the like over to the scrib Launchpad page. There has been a higher demand on our server resources and as such, I am offloading some projects and making better use of the tools we are given by other parties (such as Launchpad). With that said, there are going [...]
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Eight Tips for Developers
These should be no-brainers, but sometimes we developers overlook these ‘little’ things. While this concise little list is directed toward developers, it can be applied to just about anything, including our daily lives. Whatever time frame you give for a project, add a few more days/hours to it. You will need it. If it is [...]
Role Badges for Vanilla 2
We just recently posted the initial version of a plugin we are working on for the Vanilla 2 forum software. RoleBadges shows a list of badges based on the user’s roles in a forum post. As of right now, it does not tell you what roles the images represent. That is, however, going to be [...]
Using CouchDB With PHP
One of the things that is being done with our project, Scrib, is building it to use CouchDB as the back-end database. The data we’ll be storing is more suited to a ‘document-style’ database rather than relational, like MySQL (here’s some pros and cons of CouchDB vs. MySQL). One of the great bonuses is that [...]
Web Weaving: Transactional Storage Engines
After some talk with the developers of AIR, I did some of my own research into the difference between the MyISAM and InnoDB transactional storage engines found in MySQL, and found some interesting things. Contrary to my first belief, MyISAM under-performs when it comes to large-scale, simultaneous transactions (you really start seeing performance issues at [...]
