[nyphp-talk] Sharing great css sprites link

2007-10-22 Thread Cliff Hirsch
A great link to Yahoo¹s performance plug-in in one of today¹s threads eventually led me to this. Looks like a great solution to an image-intensive page. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites http://spritegen.website-performance.org/ Enjoy, Cliff __

Re: [nyphp-talk] Application performance optimization

2007-10-22 Thread Cliff Hirsch
>> I am testing my production site, and something seems to be >> very wrong. I just loaded my homepage and it took 53.46 > Have a look at the site with the YSlow plugin for Firefox. It tests your > site agains list of best practices from the performance guys at Yahoo: > http://developer.yahoo.co

Re: [nyphp-talk] Application performance optimization

2007-10-22 Thread Cliff Hirsch
I have people working on it ‹ hopefully they¹ll figure it out. On 10/22/07 5:21 PM, "Tim Lieberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like your server is sick.  If downloading a single sub-1k image is > taking seconds upon seconds, something is seriously wrong.  Do you have full > control of t

Re: [nyphp-talk] Application performance optimization

2007-10-22 Thread Cliff Hirsch
No remote access -- everything is coming from the server. On 10/22/07 5:22 PM, "P. Ju (朱漢璇)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Cliff, > > Are you doing remote access of DB, images, or scripts? Recently DNS resolution > with a freshly created site caused me 7-10 second access times to a > remote da

Re: [nyphp-talk] Application performance optimization

2007-10-22 Thread Daniel Krook
Hi Cliff, > I am testing my production site, and something seems to be > very wrong. I just loaded my homepage and it took 53.46 > seconds. Clearly unacceptable for a production web site. > And there should be zero load on the site, since no-one > knows about it. One 775 byte image took 23 seco

Re: [nyphp-talk] Application performance optimization

2007-10-22 Thread Cliff Hirsch
Big-fat, honking dedicated, but was ready to switch to $3.95 shared. KeepAlive was off -- turning it on appears to have solved the problem. On 10/22/07 5:15 PM, "Brian D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cliff - are you on a shared host or a dedicated server? > >> On 10/22/07, Cliff Hirsch <[EMAI

Re: [nyphp-talk] Application performance optimization

2007-10-22 Thread P. Ju (朱漢璇)
Hi Cliff, Are you doing remote access of DB, images, or scripts? Recently DNS resolution with a freshly created site caused me 7-10 second access times to a remote database. PJ > On 10/22/07, Cliff Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am testing my production site, and something seems to

Re: [nyphp-talk] Application performance optimization

2007-10-22 Thread Tim Lieberman
Sounds like your server is sick. If downloading a single sub-1k image is taking seconds upon seconds, something is seriously wrong. Do you have full control of the server, or is there someone at a hosting company that can look at this? I wouldn't start worrying about apache settings (whi

Re: [nyphp-talk] Application performance optimization

2007-10-22 Thread Cliff Hirsch
On 10/22/07 5:10 PM, "Cliff Hirsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am testing my production site, and something seems to be very wrong. I just > loaded my homepage and it took 53.46 seconds. Clearly unacceptable for a > production web site. And there should be zero load on the site, since no-one >

Re: [nyphp-talk] Application performance optimization

2007-10-22 Thread Brian D.
Cliff - are you on a shared host or a dedicated server? > On 10/22/07, Cliff Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am testing my production site, and something seems to be very wrong. I > > just loaded my homepage and it took 53.46 seconds. Clearly unacceptable for > > a production web site

[nyphp-talk] Application performance optimization

2007-10-22 Thread Cliff Hirsch
I am testing my production site, and something seems to be very wrong. I just loaded my homepage and it took 53.46 seconds. Clearly unacceptable for a production web site. And there should be zero load on the site, since no-one knows about it. One 775 byte image took 23 seconds. A 51byte image took

Re: [nyphp-talk] I think this is an encoding issue?

2007-10-22 Thread Kenneth Downs
Michael Sims wrote: On October 17, 2007, Kenneth Downs wrote: I'm wondering if somebody knows whats up here. I'm writing does in OO.org. Then I export them to xhtml. Those files I parse with PHP and output HTML. On my laptop this works out just fine. But on the production server you will

Re: [nyphp-talk] Compiling PHP

2007-10-22 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Jon Baer wrote: > Your configure should already point to apxs for your apache setup so > you don't need to do anything w/ apache except restart when the > recompile is done. Rebuilding PHP by itself doesn't rebuild mod_php right? -- Aj. __

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] Book search: The best DIV/CSS book?

2007-10-22 Thread inforequest
Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyLine) ben-at-projectskyline.com |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote: Hello All, I still used table based layouts. I try to remove all my style attributes and place them in .css files. However, I still haven't made the jump from table to div based layouts. I've looked

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] Book search: The best DIV/CSS book?

2007-10-22 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Jon Baer wrote: > I find pretty much all of the Friend of Ed series pretty insightful + > extremely helpful on the topic ... > > http://www.friendsofed.com > > Particularly the title "CSS Mastery" ... > > http://cssmastery.com > > HTH, (I can bring this to tomorrows XML

Re: [nyphp-talk] Compiling PHP

2007-10-22 Thread Jon Baer
First thing Id do is grab php-5.2.4 and mysql 5.0.45 sources and untar to /usr/local/src so you have them in case they are not there or outdated. Run "php -i | grep configure" and copy that to a handy file somewhere, it shows how your current php bin was built. Look for the mysql directi

RE: [nyphp-talk] [OT] Book search: The best DIV/CSS book?

2007-10-22 Thread Anthony Wlodarski
Ben, This is list of articles that I have read in learning how to implement div elements into what would have been a table layout. http://www.glish.com/css/. Hope it helps. Anthony W.i [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Sgro (Projec

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] Book search: The best DIV/CSS book?

2007-10-22 Thread Mitch Pirtle
I'd also like to point you to A List Apart, another New Yorker (Jeffrey Zeldman) who has made quite a name for himself on this subject. His latest book "designing with web standards" (second edition) is a great read and recommended to everyone here. http://alistapart.com/ -- Mitch ___

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] Book search: The best DIV/CSS book?

2007-10-22 Thread Jon Baer
I find pretty much all of the Friend of Ed series pretty insightful + extremely helpful on the topic ... http://www.friendsofed.com Particularly the title "CSS Mastery" ... http://cssmastery.com HTH, (I can bring this to tomorrows XML DB meetup if interested). - Jon On Oct 22, 2007, at 12:

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] Book search: The best DIV/CSS book?

2007-10-22 Thread Richard Harding
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 12:01 -0400, Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyLine) wrote: > Hello All, > > I still used table based layouts. I try to remove all my style > attributes and place them in .css files. > However, I still haven't made the jump from table to div based > layouts. > > I've looked at a few b

[nyphp-talk] [OT] Book search: The best DIV/CSS book?

2007-10-22 Thread Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyLine)
Hello All, I still used table based layouts. I try to remove all my style attributes and place them in .css files. However, I still haven't made the jump from table to div based layouts. I've looked at a few books, but haven't found one that really drove the point home. I have no formal HTML e

Re: [nyphp-talk] Compiling PHP

2007-10-22 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Jake McGraw wrote: > My question is, How should I go about recompiling our PHP install with > a newer MySQL library? Do I need to make any changes to Apache once > this is done? If anyone could point me to a step by step guide I'd be > much obliged. Do you have the original f

[nyphp-talk] Compiling PHP

2007-10-22 Thread Jake McGraw
Hello All: We currently have PHP 5.2.4 installed on our web server. It was compiled and installed with PHP MySQL library version 4.1.22 and our MySQL Server version is 5.0.45. Until yesterday this hadn't caused us any problems, but I believe it is now the source of the following error: Unable to