fb_xd_fragment Facebook Bugfix

By Colleen, on January 18th, 2011%

My server suddenly logged a rash of weird requests with something like ?fb_xd_fragment= in the URL. This is not good, because if you try this manually it renders a blank page, and blank pages are BAAAAAAAD! So upon googling I found it’s a bug with new Facebook API and (you guessed it) . . . → Read More: fb_xd_fragment Facebook Bugfix

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Memcached Test

By Colleen, on February 5th, 2009%

Warning: Hard Core Dorkage!

Here’s a little simple memcached test you can have to test memcached on your system. I am working on an app that, while the server load is not huge, the datasets that you are presenting to a visitor are larger than normal for a web app, and so I ultimately plan to break them into subsets and only load the subset the user is focusing on and cache the rest.  Hopefully most users will confine their activities to items from the same subset so we won’t be thrashing too much. Anyway we’re a long way from that day. I just installed the memcached and tested it with telnet, and I got it all hooked into the whole PHP Apache tangle.  So now we’re going to cache some data and see if it works.
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