A great article on how to speed up page load from the guys over at Boxed Ice

So if you are like me using Mosso and cant edit the php.ini file then if you want to increase the default upload size you need to edit your .htaccess file and add the following (adjust as needed):

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php_value post_max_size 16M
php_value upload_max_filesize 16M
php_value max_execution_time 600

Ecommerce

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  • China

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    • Facebook, Hadoop, and Hive

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    • Designing a Custom WordPress Theme - Working with a Designer [PART 2]

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Not sure really how much press this is getting but if the UK looses its AAA credit rating I think that this is a slippery downward slope which can only further push the UK into a deeper recession

So this blog runs on mySQL but most things critical for the company run on postgreSQL unless horror of horrors it requires a MS SQL database. With first Sun buying mySQL then Oracle you would expect better things from them and they do seem to have most of the limelight when it comes to scaling outward into the cloud (this blog is running from Mosso) but what is becoming apparent is that mySQL seems to be a melt down - have a read here (updated with…) and also here as it seems that more people are thinking the same way

I am looking forward to getting hold of the Fedora 11 - the beta reviews have been good and it will be a welcome upgrade for my desktop

Gone for a week, missed F1 but will catch up next week!

This is a real quick post - if you want to upgrade Magento using the Connect Manager simply enter the following into the extension key box:

magento-core/Mage_All_Latest

Putting the creators of Pirate Bay into prison has just made more people aware of them and does not solve the ‘problem’, just make any type of media so cheap that its pointless for people not to buy it legally and in the way they want it. Not only will people buy more but they are going to keep coming back because they can use it the way they want to.

• Pirate Bay Judge Accused of Bias, Calls for a Retrial
• The Pirate Google Bay Gives the Finger to Record Companies, Studios

So finally after months of planning and much talk on the mailing lists OFBiz have branched once more, but this time the collective I will be making use of the branch. There are enough features now in this branch for us to make use of over the next year but what we really need is stability. I can see this process being massive in terms of both changes to our internal code and also time of the developers but i think it will be worth the effort. Going to wait a few weeks for some of the simple bugs to be fixed but its on the developers road map very soon.