February 6, 2010 | Productivity Tips

As you may or may not know, Digitivity.org is hosted on Dreamhost. Anyway, they used to boot the operating system from the network to allow for centralized configuration.

Now, they’re moving to local OS’s, which requires rebooting their servers. This means a few minutes of downtime per website as the OS reboots.

There’s a way you can get a custom RSS feed of the problems affecting just the servers you’re on.

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February 3, 2010 | Developer

PHP is the programming language that runs many web applications, including WordPress. PHP’s slower than many other languages, but it’s fast to develop in.

Now Facebook, which also runs on PHP, has announced a new version of PHP that runs twice as fast.

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