Older blog entries for prenagha (starting at number 2)

Hopefully I can help get the Alternative PHP Cache (APC) up and running and stable. I don't really have the cash to pay Zend for the ZendCache - and surely not enough for the recurring/annual maintenance fees. Hopefully APC can do the trick!

Right now APC is crapping out on the crazy levels of class hierarchy scattered among 70+ include files that I use for my PHP Ecommerce application, VendoToSell.

Spent the day researching the best means for archiving a portion of my jazz cd collection to mp3. Ended up going with cdparanoia, lame, grip, DigitalDJ, mpg123. Slick. So far got the Miles Davis and John Coltrane Columba Recordings done. Next up my Mosaic albums.

Who needs Real Pukebox Plus? Not moi. Lame VBR 256 kbps encoding for free.

Rewrote phpop's template code to use PHPLIB's template class instead of FastTemplates. Supposedly much faster.

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New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!