Great WordPress Plugin: WP Widget Cache

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Using WP Widget Cache, I improved my site load time by about 600% by just starting to cache the widgets.
Here are some screenshots from my strace-based ‘magic profiler’ (which I still promise to talk more about later.)
It lets you attach to a process which is about to render your website, and then trace all the [...]

Standard Deviation with Arduino

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

My brother and I were playing around with Arduinos as part of my epic road trip this summer. He was trying to get a stable temperature reading from a sensor.
The issue was that the sensor was fine, except when it was rapidly transitioning from one temperature to another. For example, if the ambient temperature was [...]

local::lib: Better perl when you don’t have root.

Monday, October 19th, 2009

These days as we move increasingly to ‘the clouds’, it’s becoming common to get a server where you’ve got local root. However, those (from a provider and a user perspective) aren’t always the best way to go. Those are more expensive to provide (dedicated IP’s, more dedicated resources on the server) and thus more expensive [...]