Don’t touch the running system.

Yesterday I’ve decided to spend some time to upgrade my “old school” TortoiseSVN to the latest release. I thought it should be a five-minute-problem or so.  Sure…

The result was a nice greeting from my ZoneAlarm who was missing one of the Tortoise dlls. Thanks to Google and the author of this post. It was 5 minutes to find the answer however the solution took another 15 minutes instead of the 5 initially planned.

First commit, then upgrade ;)

First benefits from performance optimization: I have discovered  “the mother of all queries” in phpBB.

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From the first month of my employment at SAP I was really impressed how the guys in support become crazy on SQL optimization. Deeply impressed on variety of tools for doing this on Oracle and DB2 I decided to carry out the same analysis on my own projects. The first question I’ve asked myself: “Do we have any native MySQL tools for sql optimization?”.

Yes, we do.

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Wired, wired bug. It happens with Sashin, it happens with phpMailer class, it happens everywhere. As three plugins crashed after each other with the same reason on my brand-new Wordpress installation, I’ve decided to invest an evening to find out the reason.

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Before disappearing in the next project I’ve decided to review my favorite tools. Most of them could look uncool for a real geek but, you know, they work.

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Even there are still several open questions for me I am ready to share my first impressions about Wordpress. My first project was a blog for my little daughter . For several reasons I had to implement it in Russian, so I ‘ve got in touch also with localization and plenty of other lovely features.

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