Gun for hire!

It’s a brand new year! Well, it’s been a new year for a little while actually, but 2013 has been a busy one so far. I’ve been working hard on some interesting things, but I still managed a sneaky skiing trip. 2012 was an awesome year; I welcomed it in rawkus style with my former […]

Marcus Povey

It’s a brand new year! Well, it’s been a new year for a little while actually, but 2013 has been a busy one so far. I’ve been working hard on some interesting things, but I still managed a sneaky skiing trip. 2012 was an awesome year; I welcomed it in rawkus style with my former […]

Optimising your LAMP stack for performance

By default, the standard LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php/Perl/Python) stack doesn’t come particularly well optimised for handling more than a trivial amount of load. For most people this isn’t a problem, either they’re running on a large enough server or their traffic is at a level that they never hit against the limits. Anyway, I’ve […]

Marcus Povey

By default, the standard LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php/Perl/Python) stack doesn’t come particularly well optimised for handling more than a trivial amount of load. For most people this isn’t a problem, either they’re running on a large enough server or their traffic is at a level that they never hit against the limits. Anyway, I’ve […]

Introducing the Simple Registration Key generator

Over on Github I’ve open sourced a little library for generating and verifying product registration keys. I needed this for a couple of my projects, and I’ve made it available with hopes of saving anyone else from having to write one! The tool takes a someone’s name and a salt (which is your product id […]

Marcus Povey

Over on Github I’ve open sourced a little library for generating and verifying product registration keys. I needed this for a couple of my projects, and I’ve made it available with hopes of saving anyone else from having to write one! The tool takes a someone’s name and a salt (which is your product id […]