Accelerating PHP with the Alternative PHP Cache

By tim, on January 21st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I decided to install the open source Alternative PHP Cache on this server in order to improve performance. Interesting exercise. This server runs Debian Linux, and there are several ways to install APC:

1. Install the official package with apt-get install php-apc or similar

2. Install with the PHP Extension Community Library which goes

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What chance for MeeGo in the age of the iPad?

By tim, on May 28th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Today is Apple iPad day in the UK; but the portable device I’ve been playing with is not from Apple. Rather, I downloaded the first release build of MeeGo, proudly labelled 1.0, and installed it on my Toshiba NB 300 netbook, which normally runs Windows. You can choose between the evil edition with Google

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Linux users will need a Microsoft Office license to use Office Web Apps

By tim, on May 11th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Jeff Teper, Microsoft’s Corporate VP of the Office Business Platform, who runs the SharePoint engineering group. I asked him to clarify something has puzzled me: the licensing for Office Web Apps. From a technical point of view, Office Web Apps is an add-on for SharePoint; it does not require the paid-for

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Office Web Apps better then Open Office for .docx on Linux

By tim, on April 30th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been reviewing Office and SharePoint 2010, and trying out Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, so I thought I would put the two together with a small experiment.

I borrowed a document from Microsoft’s press materials for Office 2010. Perhaps surprisingly, they are in .doc format, not the Open XML .docx that was introduced in Office

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx great as ever, no game changer

By tim, on April 30th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, and I’m using it to type this post. Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is a “long term support” edition, making it suitable for businesses. The upgrade from Karmic, the previous version, went relatively smoothly. I say relatively because my laptop is dual boot and has two hard drives.

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Microsoft - make up your mind about Moonlight

By tim, on April 25th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been trying out Microsoft’s Office Web Apps, as provided for the release version of SharePoint 2010. The cross platform story is uneven, whether across Mac/Windows/Linux, or across different browsers, or even across different versions of Windows and Office. So far it does mostly work though, even if there are problems with certain tasks

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Ubuntu Linux: the agony and the ecstasy

By tim, on November 3rd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Just after writing a positive review of Ubuntu Karmic Koala I noticed this piece on The Register: Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu’s Karmic Koala:

Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn

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Ubuntu Karmic Koala breaks Squeezeboxserver

By tim, on October 29th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I have an Ubuntu server performing various important duties including serving music for Squeezebox. It was humming along with version 9.04 of Ubuntu and the latest Logitech Squeezeboxserver; but a new version of Ubuntu, 9.10 or Karmic Koala, was released today and I hastened to install it.

All went well – aside from a

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Intel gets into the App Store game – but where does Silverlight fit in?

By tim, on September 22nd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Intel has announced its Atom Developer Program including a new app store. The idea is to encourage a flow of applications that are well suited to netbooks, rather than general desktop applications that tend to get pressed into service because they are there, but may not be well suited to the smaller screen and

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London Stock Exchange migrating from .NET to Oracle/UNIX platform

By tim, on September 16th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The London Stock Exchange has agreed to acquire MillenniumIT, and will be replacing its TradElect and Infolect systems with the MillenniumIT trading system. TradElect is based on Windows Server and .NET, and was created by Microsoft and Accenture. Microsoft used to use the LSE’s system as a showcase for .NET scalability, but while it

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