Linux and PHP web application support and development (Bromsgrove, UK)
Recently we’ve helped build animal-licensing.uk – a site that helps the public check whether an animal business is appropriately licensed, and check the rating provided. Technically it’s built using Laravel and Typesense (which we’ve also rolled out in a few other places to replace legacy usage of Solr).
It doesn’t feel that long ago that we thought it was something to have got to a 9th birthday. However, now I’ve just realised Pale Purple is now at 17 years old. So, Pale Purple can now drive …. perhaps?
Here’s why it’s a good idea …. (The server was upgraded on the 23rd of May. The graph shows CPU time – where yellow is idle and blue+green are used/busy).
3D Printworld‘s new website recently went live. We wrote it from the ground up, applying a theme provided by an external designer. It has a responsive design so should look good on mobile and desktop platforms and an integrated CMS for administrators to update content through. It uses PayPal for payments. So, if you need […]
Our 9th birthday seemed to slip by quietly last month. Whoops.
Recently, the Bromsgrove Hockey club asked if they could show upcoming matches / fixtures / results on their website. Here’s a short summary of how we integrated Google Drive/Docs Spreadsheets with WordPress.
One consistent pain has always been resizing a filesystem without rebooting on Linux. Thank fully in recent years, this has changed with filesystems like BTRFS – where you can do something like the following….
Normally, profiling a PHP application is pretty straight forward thanks to the great xDebug . Normally, we’re looking at profiling a slow page (taking 5-15 seconds to load) and improving it’s performance down to a sub-second response. Such profiling can produce relatively large output files – e.g. in the order of a few hundred megabytes. Unfortunately […]
Somehow we’d not come across this little “hack” before, so perhaps others haven’t…. Anyway, rather than recreating a new TCP connection to a host, SSH can multiplex the traffic down an existing connection to that host. This results in subsequent ssh connections opening quicker. The magic stuff is – * Edit ~/.ssh/config * Add in […]
A new wordpress site we’ve architect-ed has just gone live – Flashbak.com