Archive for June, 2008

MySQL – Configuration, query cache and other thingamajigs (part 1 of 2)

Friday, June 27th, 2008

This is the third post in a short series about MySQL. Read the first here, and the second here. This one covers this and that and has no set topic. The post is a bit long, so I've split it in two. The next part will be released next week. ...

MySQL Indexes — to MySQL what green kryptonite is to Smallville universe Bizarro

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

This is the second post in a short series about MySQL and the first is located here. Today's post stars indexes, those furry little creatures native to the forest moon of Endor. Indexes are essential for fast and effective conditional queries and you should always use them. If you can afford ...

MySQL – What Engine to Use AKA ‘in retrospect my first mistake’

Friday, June 13th, 2008

This is the first post in a short series on MySQL. In the end of this post I will try to list as many sources as I can remember to who and what told me these lies. Most of this will be copy-paste from our sekrit wiki and requires some ...

Writing Responsive Code in Javascript

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

So, in the beginning all the things you've done in Javascript runs quick as the rabbit and your application feels very snappy. But after a while as your code is getting more complex and growing in size, you'll probably experience that the application is not as responsive as you wish. ...

A-hoy! We’re a-bloggin’

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

We're hereby entering the blog-sphere. We're late, but now we're here. What you're probably thinking right now, is "who in the world is Aptoma?" I'll provide a short answer to that reasonably fair question; Aptoma is a small web-development company situated in Oslo, Norway. We're something like the Arctic Programmers (which ...