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Today I found this website on del.icio.us containing a list of websites that offers royalty free icons.

http://www.simplewebsurf.com/royaltyfreeicons.htm

“MemCached” is a
high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature,
but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating
database load.

In this howto I explain how you can very simply install it and make it aviable in PHP.�

You need to activate the RPMForge custom
repository (formely known as Dag Wieers): http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/

Grab your specific RPM and install it:

wgethttp://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-*.rpm

rpm –install rpmforge-release-*.rpm

yum install –enablerepo=rpmforge memcached

Now memcached is installed.

You can test it

memcached -m 512 -u nobody -vv

First, you start up the memcached daemon on
as many spare machines as you have. The daemon has no configuration file, just
a few command line options, only 3 or 4 of which you’ll likely use:

./memcached -d -m 2048 -l 10.0.0.40 -p 11211 -u nobody

This starts memcached up as a daemon, using 2GB of memory, and listening
on IP 10.0.0.40, port 11211. The -m switch specifies the amount of memory in megabytes. The -l switch specifies the IP to listen on and finally the -p switch specifies the port to listen on. The default port is 11211 and if your machine has just 1 IP you can omit the -l parameter. In the above example I set the amount of memory to 2GB. Of course you should use a sensible amount of memory. Making your machine swap to disk sort of defeats the purpose of a memory cache daemon. Note that it’s perfectly fine to run the memcached daemon on another machine than the one you’re running your actual PHP project on. You could even set up a machine totally dedicated to being a memory cache server. And if that’s not even enough you can set up muliple servers as well. The sky is the limit. Note: if you try to start the memcached as root it will require you to specify a user under which it should run with an additional -u nobody

Installation of the PHP MemCache extension�

cd /files/download/

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/memcache-2.1.2.tgz

tar -xvf memcache-2.1.2.tgz

cd memcache-2.1.2

phpize
&& ./configure –enable-memcache && make

Copy the memcache.so to the default module
directory.

vi /etc/php.ini

add

extension=memcache.so

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

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If you check you phpinfo() you should a memcache section appear.

You can now fully use the Memcache functionality in your PHP.

References

http://www.danga.com/memcached/

http://dk.php.net/manual/en/ref.memcache.php

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Today I found this nice article to become a better web designer.

They are summed up in 50 key items.

If you are a web designer you should read this:

http://www.gosquared.com/liquidicity/archives/114

As a fan of open source, I can only agree what Vibhash (http://tech-tonic.net) is saying.

He made up a list of open source tools that replace expensive software tools.

The list is really rock solid:

http://tech-tonic.net/microsoft/25-essential-open-source-software-for-windows.html

So if you work on a Windows OS, you should consider using this software instead of buying all the expensive tools.

Some more icon news

You can download a whole range of Apple icons right from the apple website completely free!!!



http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/

What is the first thing that users see when they use a web application.

That the Grafical User Interface (GUI).

What defines a good looking GUI pure graphically speaking.

• Element positioning
• Color Usage
• useability
• graphics and icons

I always liked the KDE icons, they are clean and clear.

And they look PRO.

Now there’s a new icon pack released that you should check out.

http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/ (see download section for download)

Thanks to

Thanks to:The entire Crystal users community. You are responsible for the success of this project.

To the artists who collaborated with me on the creation of the icons:

– Ingolfur Haraldsson

– Luiz Claudio dos Santos

– Edson Farias

– Paulo André

– Rhandros Dembiki

– André Souza