Archive for December, 2007

I was working with some JavaScript code today (for our new moderation tools on Curse), and found something interesting. Let me first say by in no way do I claim to be a JavaScript expert, so don’t tease me too much.

One issue I’ve personally had to overcome with Django, and languages which aren’t specifically designed for the web, is that you don’t have access to the environment everywhere. The environment I’m referring to, is the current request, and response objects.
In PHP there is no response object, at least not one as you would see in […]

In preparation for a possible change in Curse’s caching strategy, I took the time today to do some benchmarks of memcached. The benchmarks were taken using the standard python-memcached library as well as 3rd party library for PHP (I couldn’t get Leopard working with the PECL package). It turns out, Python is actually fairly fast […]