Daily Archives: June 14, 2012

Migration: Aches and Pains

I recently migrated my diary to a new server, and was amused by some of the problems I faced doing so. Deploying PHP applications should be a simple affair – set up the database, upload the code – but moving to a newer version of the language brought many problems. PHP now bothers to check […]

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Compression

A link recently bubbled up the frontpage of Hacker News, and I found myself rather curious to find out more. The headline rather proudly proclaimed: “RJSON: compress JSON to JSON”. JSON is a useful and simple way of transmitting data between machines on the Internet, and is commonly-used by many dynamic websites today (see Wiki […]

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