Been a busy week, working on the Gift Guide, scheduling CES meetings, and getting the site ready for CES. Had to do emergency work on SlashGear forum with some XSS vulnerability hole to cover and interface makeover. SlashGear blog should run much speedier now, ironed out several useless MySQL queries. Heading to a local pizzeria [...]

If you have not heard of miniBB, it’s a very lightweight forum web application - we use it on SlashGear discussion forums. Prior to WordPress 2.5, miniBB integration to WordPress was fairly straightforward and easy. Wordpress 2.5 introduces new password hashes, phpass and it breaks many 3rd party application integration, including miniBB. While you can [...]

I’m really amazed on how my wife is handling things around the household, you guys might see a lot of her writing on SlashGear Japan (she’s the executive editor there), but she still manage to run the “Mom” tasks flawlessly. I’m married to a wonderful woman and very dedicated in parenting my little sister (real [...]

For the past couple days, I’ve been trying to figure out how I can keep our flagship sites up during sudden spikes of incoming traffic. We have moved to LiteSpeed Web Server two months ago and it does help; however the bottleneck is back to MySQL. So recently I enabled slow-queries log on MySQL server [...]

Okay guys, WWDC is around the corner so I spent the whole weekend preparing for the event. I developed and put up a Webcast system where our Editor will be able to bring you live coverage of events such as WWDC. Check out SlashGear’s new section called SlashGear Live and MY iTablet Live Webcast. Both [...]