I have been testing the performance of our apache webserver over the last couple of days. Using apachebench I managed to get approx. 80 php requests / sec fetching dyanmic and static pages from apache. The box was really struggling. The load on the machine was over 100 and apache maxed out with 250 processes!

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We’re proud to annouce that Nick Chapman started working with us this week – he’s writing some of the gnarly ruby extensions for use with our search technology.

Welcome aboard Nick!

I’m moving some pretty big datasets around at the moment – and seeing 120mb data files being uncompressed in a few seconds makes my head spin a bit.
I remember when I got my first 120mb drive – and that was less than 10 years ago.

I’m working away on the executive summary of our first product (coming out early next month). I’m planning to display the summary as a mini slideshow – so I started with some paper-based sketches.
Converting these half dozen A4-sized papers into a cohesive online presentation is a real challenge. It’s easy to focus on font sizes, [...]

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””http://www.jnd.org”>Don Norman has a very insightful look at Google’s web design in his latest essay – The truth about Google’s so called “Simplicity”
Here’s a snippet from his article…

Is Google simple? No. Google is deceptive. It hides all the complexity by simply showing one search box on the main page. The main [...]