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 [...]

After last week’s pilot (introduction), we received several feedback for SlashGear TV’s week in review video. We taped the first episode on Saturday and aired them early today. Vince, Ashley and Bree covers everything that we published on our network between June 23rd to June 27th. As always, feedback are always welcome.

I’m a guy who will throw in more hardware to keep up with server load and traffic demand, but from time to time, being able to squeeze every little bit of performance worth the hassle of mingling into applications and server configuration. WordPress is quite MySQL resources intensive when you are not using file-based cache [...]

We had a informal meeting with HTC in New York two days ago and were given the opportunity to play around with the HTC Touch Pro, formerly known as Raphael. It is basically a thicker version of HTC Touch with QWERTY slide keyboard. Read the full hands-on and watch the video.

When I moved R3 Network to SoftLayer, we received 2000GB bandwidth allocation each server. We don’t use much of our public bandwidth on MySQL server as we connect to it using internal private IP, however I can’t say the same for our web server. Based on last month usage (May), our web server has used [...]

Tell me if I’m crazy, but does anyone else starting to feel that having more advance mobile phones racking up more services bills? Data plans, push emails, music services, TV on mobile phones, and many more becoming very mainstream – people are spending their hard earn money for services that they CAN live without.

I sync R3 sites data as backups to several servers and services around the world; on top of that I regularly use rsync to mirror those data to my local NAS to keep as a local backup. While doing this entire backup thing for the sites, I’ve realized that I never backup any of my [...]

Computers are everywhere. In fact, the life of many largely depends on computers. They send their mail on the web rather than the old time practice of sending them through snail mail. They talk to their friends through chats. Take up examinations digitally to prevent errors on checking. Life is surely easier because of them. [...]