beer planet

Updated: June 16th, 2008

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svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5

and Beer Planet is on 2.5. There were no problems with the upgrade itself or any of the plugins. Great work on the new clean interface and multi-file upload, Wordpress!

Info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.5 (short) and http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/ (more detailed)

Updated: December 17th, 2007

An adorable group of orphaned baby owls have been adopted by a silly-looking stuffed toy owl, after they were found on the brink of death in the wild. You have to see the photo to believe it - you will die of cuteness!

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Are you dead yet?

I've recently installed eAccelerator on the web server that hosts this site and I wanted to share some of my impressions after a few days.

• What does it do? Nobody put it better than the eAccelerator team itself: "eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times."
• Does it work? Hell yes. beerpla.net loads on average twice as fast as before. The results are consistent, so I'm very impressed.
• Ease of installation. Extremely easy. Compilation from source tarball, adding a few lines into php.ini, and apache restart is all it takes. Full instructions here.
• Feedback from companies who have installed eAccelerator is here. It's hosted by eAccelerator themselves but seems to be legit.

/End of short note

Today the server went offline while I was at work for no apparent reason. Further investigation uncovered the perpetrator. Here he is, eating the power cord.