JohnBs personal blog

Imagine my surprise when i went to grab a CF installer from this page!!

Visit it - you’ll like the surprise too! Sneaky MM, don’t you think folk work on a Sunday? But Thank you!!!!

UK Chart update, Elvis only manages number 2 this week behind Eminem’s excellent ‘Like Toy Soldiers’ - infact this week i wouldn’t have minded had Elvis been number one - last weekend saw the start of the 4th season of 24, mid week Las Vegas season 2 began, lastnight CSI:New York hit our screens and tonight after 24, we get the second season of Nip/Tuck! Not to mention the fact we’re 3 episodes into Desperate Housewives! Thank you America for such great shows!

As Andy has blogged here it’s been finally confirmed I will be speaking to the Scottish CFUG in Edinburgh about Fusebox4.1 on Thursday April 28th. I’m spending the Thursday afternoon with Edinburgh Uni before presenting to the CFUG in the evening. I’ll be up in Edinburgh for a few days after too to do a bit of touristy stuff in the city.

Then this could be right up your street!!! It is pretty cool! Some people have far too much time!

In my quest for performance increases and saving on server resources I’m trying out Brandon Purcell’s cf_accelerate caching solution on my blog here.

It took a couple of attempts to get it working as i wanted, simply wrapping the entire page in the tags worked great, but when i logged in to create new posts i still saw the cached version - not good! It defaults to using a primary key of the query string and a secondary key of ‘default’, so at the moment i’ve got one cf_accelerate around the articles (using the query string as the PK and a named secondary key of ‘articles’) and a second around the ‘posts by subject’ pod with a similar call, there’s a third one wrapped round the RSS output generator too - just to reduce the number of Db hits occuring when you lot hit my feeds. It needed another piece of custom fusebox lexicon to integrate it into my code base so that’ll be another entry at some point.

What’s cool about cf_accelerate is that Brandon supplies a cool ‘Cache Manager’ app so you can see what/where and when caching is occuring and you can view cached info, purge it or set up skimmers to refresh cached info

Elvis managed a number one this week, with ‘Its now or never’ - and there’s still 15 more to come!