Author Archives: Mike Walker
UPDATE: I was wrong about being wrong! In the comments section below, Billy Hoffman has pointed out that gzip compression is still incredibly useful, and that I should do better research. ;) Today I had to rethink how I serve data to my users. According to an answer posted on StackOverflow, gzip or deflate [...]
Git is magnificent. No single tool has saved me as much time, effort, and sanity as Git and I recommend it’s use to every developer, designer, and power-user I know. What’s so great about Git? I had planned to sit down this evening and write an article extolling the virtues of git and version control, [...]
Immediately after installing Lion I encountered the problem and have been researching it since. I thought I had fixed the problem by turning off pointer acceleration, but unfortunately that just reduced the symptoms. My experience: I first noticed that my mouse pointer will jump around the screen while moving it. That is, I would move [...]
…on a Friday afternoon in July. I decided to finish setting up VPN access to the office and part of the process was to change our local subnet of “192.168.1.0″ to “192.168.x.0″ (for x > 1) to avoid ip address conflicts with most home routers. It’s not a difficult process, but I did encounter a [...]
TL;DR: Disable mouse pointer acceleration. I installed OSX Lion onto my work machine this week and, while I do love the new features, I’ve been having some problems. Most notably, once I switched away from the carpel-tunnel-causing Magic Mouse to the luscious Logitech MX518 I have been experiencing the same “pointer skip” that many other [...]
Given that I built this system 2 weeks ago it isn’t quite “new” but it mines at around 750-800 Mhash/sec, or 1 bitcoin every 2 days (via deepbit). I think that’s pretty respectable. Here’s the rig that I’ve christened “Newbie”: 2x ATI Radeon HD 5850 video cards (w/ CrossfireX) Intel i3-2100 (Dual core, 3.1 GHz) Asus P8P67LE [...]
Adding a “Prepend” Option to URLs generated by the {exp:structure:nav} Tag
By Mike Walker | June 14, 2011
In mod.structure.php function nav() insert the highlighted line: And before the end of the function, replace the line setting $html with the following highlighted line: Now open sql.structure.php. Locate the generate_nav() function (around line 479) and change the function definition to the first highlighted line below. Also update the function call to get_selective_data() (around line [...]
On my first day at POWERSHiFTER I was greeted with a desk & chair to be assembled and a new iMac to be configured and while I had my chair built and desk organized in no time, setting up my iMac has been much more of a process. Sure, MobileMe automagically configured the baseline (settings, accounts, [...]
A recent project with POWERSHiFTER had us designing an Expression Engine-driven site with a ridiculous amount of content (110,000 words / 500+ printed pages). Luckily the content was very well organized and came complete with internal addressing system for each of the sections to improve the quality of life for out copy editors. Now for [...]
When installing phpMyAdmin 3.3.10 on my Nginx 0.8.76, PHP-FPM 5.3.6 (w/ APC + memcached) & MySQL 5.5.9 setup, I first encountered this problem: 2011/04/06 14:17:36 [error] 32174#0: *9366 FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP Warning: Unknown: Unable to allocate memory for pool. in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: require_once(): Unable to allocate memory for pool. [...]
