This weekend my laptop decided to die after the latest batch of Apple system updates. Not sure why, but on the first startup after the update, it wanted to randomly shut off (hard power-down) and could not get out of that cycle. Thanks, Apple.
So I did my first successful restore from a Time […]
You might know about some of the more glamorous Firefox 3 security features, but behind the scenes Firefox is protecting you from malicious extensions and plugins through its blocklisting service.
Depicted below is a diagram of how Firefox talks to its blocklist service. This is how it works:
Every day Firefox downloads an XML document from […]
Using Webgrind and Xdebug, you to tack on ?XDEBUG_PROFILE=true to any URL and view profiling information for that particular URL instantly.
One of the main criticisms of profiling PHP applications has been how difficult it is to manage different kcachegrind or wincachegrind windows — assuming you’re a pro at pointing them to your Xdebug output directory […]