Category Archives: Linux

Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) and PHP 5.4

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

I was looking forward to trying out some of the new features in PHP 5.4 when I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 this morning. Unfortunately, Ubuntu decided to stick with 5.3 for this release. There is upgrade path available though via … Continue reading →

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New Replication Features in MySQL 5.6

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

I’ve just been reading an article on replication in MySQL 5.6 and there are quite a few new cool features that will vastly improve replication environments with MySQL. Some of these include: Optimised row based replication (documentation here) – replication … Continue reading →

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Looking at New Features in PHP 5.4

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

PHP 5.4 was released at the start of March and heralds a key new feature which I have long bemoaned the lack of: traits. Traits (see PHP’s documentation and Wikipedia’s description) allow programmers to define a set of functions which … Continue reading →

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TallyStick, ViMbAdmin and a CSS/JS Minify Tool

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

It’s been a busy few weeks: We launched TallyStick – a time tracking and billing tool – two weeks ago and have pushed some bug fixes and updates. So far so good! IXP Manager, an open source web application to assist … Continue reading →

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“Go Faster” Websites – Introducing Minify

Posted on March 5, 2012 by opensolutions

We’ve been minifying and bundling CSS and JS for years to ensure quick page loads of the applications we build. We’ve now generalised, documented and packaged the tool we use for this and released it under a BSD license so others can benefit. Continue reading →

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