Server load problems. Varnish vs Nginx vs Apache vs PHP DSO vs FCGI vs suPHP vs APC vs eAccelerator vs memcached

By On September 19, 2011 · 3 Comments

After noticing one of my servers was down i needed a solution to the server load problems i was having.

My sites on the server usually handle the loads that are on them but i was getting a huge spike in traffic that was causing the server to start swapping in and out of the [...]

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messing around with preg_replace….

By On September 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I am probably trying to reinvent the wheel here but…..

I wanted to get the top 20 or so tags from a wordpress blog and to use the tags for a loop of 3 posts from each tag.

The only function i could find to get the most used tags was wp_tag_cloud

by taking it [...]

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Flash Games

By On May 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I have made a plugin for wordpress to display up to 200 flash games within your wordpress blog.

It is a relatively simple plugin that pulls data from my arcade website Lingolux flash games.

At the backend Lingolux uses a simple wordpress WP_Query loop to pull data from the site as specified by the [...]

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SPL reconstruction

By On January 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I think the 10 team league could work…. but only if they did something radical!

How about adopting The South American style system?

An “opening tournament” where each of the 10 play each other twice, a champion is declared.
Relegation wise, they could have 1 or 2 down 1 or 2 up (or playoffs [...]

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how to get round irelands piratebay block

By On January 25, 2010 · 1 Comment

http://194.71.107.15

yup thats right its only a dns block!

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Mr Crabbys Beach Ball Adventure Launched

By On December 5, 2009 · 1 Comment

My first game has been launched.

Its a combination of Arkanoid, Breakout and Peggle using Box2d Physics it provides a unique gameplay experience.

I programmed the game using FlashDevelop and Adobe’s Flex API

The Menu Music, Losing Music and Winning music was made by Seven Acre Smile , you [...]

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Yuan PD300 aka DVB2GO vista 64bit BDA drivers!

By On October 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’ve had this little card for ages but since I’ve been using vista 64bit i’ve been unable to use my Yuan pd300 (dvb2go)  stick…

The Yuan site is terrible and has no links to any sort of drivers…. and from what i remembered they even required a cdkey to use their drivers/software!!!

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