Yahoo! recently released a new Firefox extension called YSlow. This article describes how to get started and what we did at Playing With Wire to get our front page to load in almost half the time.
YSlow is a handy little tool for analyzing the performance of your websites. It will give you vital statistics and […]

Finally! Ever since I bought my P990i about 7 months ago, I’ve been struggling with keeping my contacts and calendars in sync. Since there is no native support for the P990i in iSync (blame both Apple and Sony Ericsson, since none of them seems to care to solve the problem), I’ve been spending hours on […]

This guide is for the programmer who needs to write a quick and dirty PHP extension. A PHP extension is a module for PHP written in C. You may wish to write such a module to expose library functionality only available in C, or to optimize certain key sections in your execution path.
As I have […]

If you’re in the initial phases of setting up a new software project, one of the first things you should be thinking about is a project collaboration site. A good project site enables you to do at least two things:

Collect design documents and documentation in one place
Track and assign tasks/bugs/issues to developers

If used correctly, the […]

A while back we wrote an article called What’s Your Utilization, Kenneth. In that article we talked about a really cool web-app called Cacti. Today we will take this one step further by describing how to monitor remote servers using SSH tunnels.
In the scope of this article, we assume that you already have one […]