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Comment on What is the best PHP accelerator to use? by Jiggy

Jiggy — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:16:34 +0000

I tried APC, my host installed it for me, but i still fail to see a difference. How do I measure performance?

Comment on Percentage rounding and sub pixel perfection by Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:59:32 +0000

Hello!

i stumbled over this as the problem teased me for several times. i tried to build kind of portfolio with a fluid grid where only pictures are shown with rectangle pictures. the basic size is something like 300 x 300 px and if i want to use pictures in a bigger scale i can use a multiple size of this in width and lenght. so far so good…everything should float to the left and so on. then i had the subpixel problem especially in firefox.
what worked out fantastic (i am not a professional webworker) was, to put everything in a wrapper which i use for adjusting the whole page width. so now u can see its logical a matter of calculation if u use diferent percentage widths. the problem occures only on certain widths. instead of giving the wrapper a percentage width and align it via margin:auto, i gave it only a padding in pixels. i tried it in the most common browsers and its working pretty good. so maybe i only was lucky with going my trial and error method if somebody wants to try let me know about your experiences…

Comment on What is the best PHP accelerator to use? by WebHost

WebHost — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:58:00 +0000

What do you guys think of php for windows, and wincache extension?
I’m pretty heavily tied into running both ASP Classic / .NET / and PHP on the same box.

Comment on phpBB Admin Email Search Mod Version 1.0.1 by Ian

Ian — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:45:41 +0000

Hi there,

This looks like a very useful MOD. However the link you provide for Get Support goes to a page not found now, as does the link in the txt file bundled with the code.

Does the old support page still exist?

Thanks,

Ian

Comment on Associative Arrays in VB.NET by SsJVasto

SsJVasto — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:10:24 +0000

Also, the example has a design flaw…

dim myFamily as Collection = new Collection
myFamily.add(“Leah”,”wife”)
myFamily.add(“Cal”,”father”)

If myFamily.Contains(“dad”) Then
Response.Write(“My father is: ” & myFamily(“father”).ToString)
End If

Your condition should be “myFamily.Contains(“father”)”… The string is never displayed, it is always False, no element “dad” exists…

Comment on Nested Grids in YUI Grids CSS by Twitter Trackbacks for Nested Grids in YUI Grids CSS | Agile Webmasters [agilewebmasters.com] on Topsy.com

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:46:25 +0000

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Comment on Video: Nicole Sullivan – Design Fast Websites by alex

alex — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:49:56 +0000

The french girl is horrible…
And we… So you… Basically… What we … In order to…

Comment on Percentage rounding and sub pixel perfection by Russ

Russ — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:29:08 +0000

It’s unfortunate to see even this page is getting spammed by people hawking medications.

Comment on Percentage rounding and sub pixel perfection by David Rivers

David Rivers — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:08:24 +0000

This discussion is fascinating as I began the other night rolling my own grids solution I call gridular: http://github.com/DavidRivers/gridular. I wasn’t much aware of the “subpixel rounding” issues until I saw the term being listed as a feature of a CSS library while doing research. I haven’t even tested across browsers yet and my library is extremely alpha, but I might have to adopt Stubbornella’s solution to this issue.

Stubbornella also forced me to consider removing gutters from units. I would like to follow the OOCSS design principles as much as possible, but I may have to make a compromise for the sake of designer sanity. I had envisioned providing a .gr.gr-m (a “Grid” with a margin “Grid Style” applied to it) as a class providing sane margin/gutter defaults (if such a thing exists) on grids, based on design theory if I can find enough theory to support specific algebra, and derivative classes to either add or remove margins/gutters if the designer wants more or less. I’m not really sure where I’m going to end up with this idea, but I would really like to ease the burden of whitespacing grids and units if possible.

Robert, did you ever finish the CSS library you discuss in this blog entry? I am curious to see what you have come up with.

Comment on What is the best PHP accelerator to use? by Ron Peled

Ron Peled — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:56:07 +0000

The only problem I have found with APC is that for extremely large sites, say 60,000 files and higher it does not work so well and latest versions are BETA with some serious memory leaks. In those cases, eAccelerator performed the best. However, by no means it is perfect. It has some issues with stability and scalability but much more solid than APC.

Let’s see what the future brings us, perhaps Hiphop for PHP…