Mike Leggett has been sharing his musings on Geograph and it’s interesting to read an outside analysis of the phenomenon. I only came across it today even though Technorati keeps a watchful eye on Geograph related blog posts for me. Seems it’s been mentioned in the forums and the observer has become the observed!
Interesting reading!
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A new article at phpriot walks through using the Zend_Search_Lucene which is part of the new Zend Framework. I’ve been playing with Xapian recently and liking it a lot, but Lucene is next on my list. There’s a scholarly comparison sheet (PDF) which compares several open source IR engines, which suggests the information retrieval performance [...]
Since the last release of pastebin a few days ago I’ve fixed a few bugs, added clipboard support for IE, and upgraded to the latest version of GeShi. To everyone who’s been asking for Ruby formatting, it’s finally here!
Expect more tweaks over the next few weeks…
Download GPL’d source code, or just play with it at [...]
I had a feature suggestion to add a “copy to clipboard” link to pastebin.com. This was easy for IE, but I had a hard time getting Firefox to play ball. There’s an article at MozillaZine covering the issue, but I wasn’t able to get the technique to work. If anyone knows how, let me know!
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David Shea (the CSS Zen Gardener) urges web designers to stop CSS hacking or be stopped. Nice article from the fledgling Vitamin website.
CSS Zen Garden inspired me to try and do a better job of CSS and semantic markup, I’m hoping to find enough time to make Geograph a whole lot better in that area [...]
Rocket Commander is a nice looking Microsoft tutorial to produce a 3D game using C# and DirectX. I don’t have much use for C# at the moment, but this looks like a fun way of kicking the tyres!
There hasn’t been a source release of pastebin.com in over a year, and I promised one in April, and here it is!
There’s no new features yet, just what you see on pastebin.com, but the code has been substantially reworked from the last available release. Source is GPL licenced, if you have any questions, add them [...]
There’s an interesting article over at ONLamp which covers
Advanced MySQL Replication, covering how to go beyond master-master replication to create a circular cluster of MySQL servers. It includes details on how you can use MySQL 5.1 features to manage automatic failover to remove any failed node from the cluster.
A colleague pointed me at the Hack MySQL site which has a couple of nice tools available.
mysqlreport which can give a nice snapshop of how mysql is performing
mysqlsla which will analyse your query logs to tell the frequency of each query, its execution time and an EXPLAIN for each query too.
Interesting site anyway, I’ll stay [...]
I’ve been using the new Google Calendar the past few days and liking it a lot. I’ve created a shared calendar of UK Geocaching Events, to use it, simply search the public calendars for “uk cache events” and add the calendar. The event calendar is also available in iCal and XML formats.
If you spot any [...]
