20110531 Rules are made to be broken, right?

On cache There’s an Android API which allows any application to access a reserved directory for temporary files, such as application and cache files. The developer manual has this to say on the cache topic: …you should always have a reasonable maximum, such as 1 MB, for the amount of space you consume with cache [...]

20100614 Debunking Smarty myths

I have found yet another article condemning the use of Smarty because… [...] When you add a template language on top of this the template language has to be interpreted, converted to php and then interpreted as php and outputted. This doubles the amount of work that the cpu has to do to return the [...]

20070515 REST + caching = BOOOM!

I have been doing some RubyOnRails stuff lately, for fun basically. I decided to build my new site (supersole.net) with Rails, and I also decided to use the shiny REST stuff which comes built in with the latest versions of Rails. But I don’t know if it’s just me and my (mis)understanding of how this [...]