This is another one of those articles that will be of interest to a minority of WordPress users. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in Plugins, Tech, WordPress
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Also tagged .net, cache, caching, Development, object-cache, opcode cache, Perl, PHP, plugin, Plugins, WordPress, xcache
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I get to unwrap one of my presents early this year, and it ranks up there with some of the best — a new job! I’ll be working with Alex King and the other fine folks at Crowd Favorite. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in CrowdFavorite, Personal, WordPress, Work
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Also tagged app, CrowdFavorite, Development, Jobs, Perl, PHP, Web, WordPress, Work
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Say we’re writing a program in Perl, and we need to pass a lot of data back and forth between subroutines. Using global variables is bad practice, and we often use the slightly-less-bad method of passing around a big hash variable. But it’s a pain to always use the values in the hash, so a lot of our code uses individual scalar variables, and stick them into (and pull them out of) the hash as needed. [...]
One of the new features in the upcoming WordPress 2.2 release is an option to “Deactivate All Plugins” with one click. Our standard advice is to deactivate all your plugins before upgrading so that out-of-date plugins won’t break your system mid-upgrade. [...]
This is a little story about customer service. It’s about bad customer service, and it’s about good customer service. It’s about how a customer service rep should make sure that he really knows the answer to a question before spouting off, and if he isn’t sure, he should ask someone else.
The dramatis personae in this little skit are Comcast and Tivo. Comcast will be playing the role of bad customer service, and Tivo is cast in the role of the hero. [...]
I’ve been planning to write up a plugin to serve as an example of using the WordPress Object Cache, but haven’t had time to finish it up. However, this topic came up on the wp-hackers mailing list recently, so I thought that I would go ahead and give a brief rundown on how to use the cache from within your own plugins.
The goal of the WordPress Object Cache is to provide a way to persistently store results from expensive queries in an external cache file. [...]
A couple of years ago, when we moved to the Atlanta area, I was working as a contractor doing some web programming on a project that I couldn’t say much about, because I had signed an NDA. [...]
Alice takes her car to a repair shop on Monday. She walks inside and talks to Bob, the customer service representative behind the counter. “My car seems to work pretty well, but occassionally it makes an odd noise. When can you have it fixed, and how much will it cost?”
Bob smiles and replies, “we can have your car ready by noon on Friday, and it will cost $200.” Alice says that this is acceptable, and leaves her car to be worked on.
On Wednesday afternoon, Bob talks to Charlie, the mechanic. [...]
