While running some tests on my local machine, I discovered a certain content item on Authware took between 2.5 and 2.9 seconds to load — when nearly every other one got loaded in less than 0.7 seconds. There were some basic references to clone — especially when determining the book name for a certain content item and discovering the book was it’s own parent — and I naturally erroneously assumed the overhead arose in those sections. Doing a manual copy of all the elements I needed instead of cloning changed nothing.

At last, I shall be free to rant in peace. I’ll hopefully be moving most of my code section over here.
The old links to my page content will still work. I set up 301 redirects to the new content.

I’ve already mocked up a design for Authware and tweaked the database layer — I was able to communicate successfully with PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server. Hopefully, any other developer interested should be able to write a layer for mySQLite or some other obscure database. I used PHP 5’s Interface feature — the classes only [...]

I’m in charge of overhauling a site (http://www.i55.org) and moving it to Joomla. Here’s the test site [before it goes live].
I’ve been slaving away at this site for quite a while, rewriting components to fit the design I was given as much as possible. I proffer my work to the client, and he’s quite satisfied [...]

I updated my archaic DevC++ installation today — and holy of holies, I couldn’t compile something I was working on. I decided to try out a “Hello World” program, but I still couldn’t compile. I was beginning to think the problem was from several installations I made recently so I uninstalled them — the errors [...]

I was just going over something today ans came across SQLite. Nope — it’s not that I just discovered it — I mean, I initially planned to start using it way back since last year, but I obviously needed a book to remind me that it existed.
I’m working on a lightweight database abstraction layer [now [...]

With little to do to keep me busy, I think the time has come for me to overhaul two scripts I wrote. I installed a development wiki but haven’t done anything worth putting up there.
I’ve already come up with a design for Authware — I’ll be posting it on my writing site when I’m done [...]

I’ve had some people try to pull me onto the RoR train in the past, saying it’s the hottest thing around. Others have pointed Flex as the way forward. I’m just not so sure about things anymore.
Trust me, I’ve worked with the .NET framework both in and out of the web context and the problems [...]

This is something I’ve never tried before. Something told me to make my RSS 2.0 feed readable.
Since I’ve never formatted XML with anystylesheet before, I decided to try my hand at using CSS for my formatting. It was rather dull so I jumped to the dreaded XSL method — something I ran away from [...]