Vladimir Shapiro Blog http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:36:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en Diorama.Ru hits 6.000 mark http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2010/03/09/dioramaru-hits-6000-mark/ http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2010/03/09/dioramaru-hits-6000-mark/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:31:49 +0000 Ronin http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2010/03/09/dioramaru-hits-6000-mark/ Diorama hits 6000 mark (Google Analytics)

Without being noticed Diorama.Ru hits 6.000 daily visits mark.

]]> http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2010/03/09/dioramaru-hits-6000-mark/feed/ TortoiseSVN: libapr_tsvn.dll missing http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/12/15/tortoisesvn-libapr_tsvndll-missing-problem/ http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/12/15/tortoisesvn-libapr_tsvndll-missing-problem/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:48:21 +0000 Ronin http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/12/15/tortoisesvn-libapr_tsvndll-missing-problem/ 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 ;)

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]]> http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/09/20/stockholm-evenings/feed/ Apache Compression: Performance Magic http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/08/31/apache-compression-magic-impact-on-performance/ http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/08/31/apache-compression-magic-impact-on-performance/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:33:59 +0000 Ronin http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/08/31/apache-compression-magic-impact-on-performance/ Recently I have revisited the performance issue on my largest project - Diorama.Ru.  4000 users with 60.000 page views hitting the server every day. I am proud to have such a “playground” for performance optimization.

We’ve started with the MySQL tuning several months ago, then I have introduced the application level caching using Smarty template engine and finally pushed the last button - Apache gzip compression via mod_deflate.

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Kiwi = Kill It With Iron.

]]> http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/08/04/kiwi-approach/feed/ Design behind the design :) http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/04/30/design-behind-the-design/ http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/04/30/design-behind-the-design/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:08:50 +0000 Ronin http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/04/30/design-behind-the-design/ Exploring Boxes and Arrows today I’ve found a broken link. The 404-page suggested me to “go back to where you come from”. Nice.

I had an intention to help by informing a webmaster but I didn’t find any single contact (or at least the way to contact the authors) on the whole website. Nothing. Closed like a Black Box.

May be this is a new step in UX evolution, who knows…

]]> http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/04/30/design-behind-the-design/feed/ Red Giant http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/04/23/red-giant/ http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/04/23/red-giant/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:55:50 +0000 Ronin http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/04/23/red-giant/ Oracle buys Sun Microsystems. It seems this company simply cann’t stop shopping… Peoplesoft, Siebel, InnoDB and now Java and MySQL.

If we call IBM a blue giant should we name Oracle a red one? Or may be a Red Devil?…

Not carrying about Java at all, I’m worried about the MySQL future a bit. I don’t want to see this great project dying. The market sees it different, however.

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]]> http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2009/01/15/missing-melbourne/feed/ MySQL Parameters: Performance Optimization http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2008/10/19/mysql-parameters-performance-optimization/ http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2008/10/19/mysql-parameters-performance-optimization/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:00:59 +0000 Ronin http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2008/10/23/mysql-parameters-performance-optimization/ The first part of this post was devoted to the tools for SQL optimization in MySQL. Here I would like to stop at several database parameters which are relevant for MySQL performance.

There are at least three areas to take a look at: Thread Cache, Table Cache and Query Cache.

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]]> http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2008/10/19/mysql-parameters-performance-optimization/feed/ Top Microstocks on Google Trends http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2008/09/19/top-microstocks-on-google-trends/ http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2008/09/19/top-microstocks-on-google-trends/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:56:35 +0000 Ronin http://vladimir-shapiro.com/en/blog/2008/09/19/top-microstocks-on-google-trends/ An interesting picture from the Google Trends covering the popularity of top microsotck brands in the Google search and news.

Microstock Brands on Google Trends

istockphoto: 1.00 shutterstock: 0.66 fotolia: 0.78
dreamstime: 0.20  stockxpert: 0.04

Dreamstime and Stockexpert are stagnating on the bottom but Fotolia competes with two other “micro-monsters” on the top. This is quite interesting because it doesn’t exactly reflects the situation with my sales. Also  according to the regular earnings reports posted by Lee Torrents on Microstock Diaries the picture looks a bit different. You never see the Fotolia in the leaders.  Very good promotion or am I missing something as a contributor?

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