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.

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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 like [...]

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 Aradius 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 up [...]