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Nginx / Memcached Direct Page Caching
There are a few different approaches to caching; data caching, fragment caching, and full-page caching. But first, here’s the typical model of a web application. User requests a page, and it works through the web server, through several layers, and finally to the database. Data caching takes the place of a database call and can [...]
Joomla Sphinx Search Plugin
Beware, this is beta quality software. Use at your own risk. As we understand already, Joomla doesn’t have relevant searching. It’s a shame since everything else is designed well, but this is a problem regarding implementation. This article explains how to setup sphinx to index your Joomla articles and use my plugin to search using [...]
Caching in Joomla 1.5 with Fault Tolerance
If you’ve used Joomla before, you may be aware that there are built-in caching features which you can activate to reduce the number of expensive database calls needed to render a page. This feature is also available to your own custom code, whether that be in the form of components, modules, or plugins. The actual [...]
RSForm submissions too slow!—but easy to fix!
Joomla is a great platform for building web sites and RSForm is a great plugin for Joomla to handle form submissions—but with a recent project we found that RSForms was having some serious trouble with only a moderate amount of data (2,000 submissions). I tried to find the source of the problem and always got [...]
Joomla 1.5 Sphinx Search Plugin
I just finished a large chunk of work on my own full-text search plugin for Joomla. It works in conjunction with Sphinx to index and search Joomla content “the right way.” (i.e. not using basic LIKE statements) Edit (Feb. 27, 2010): I just released a beta version of this plugin here: Joomla Sphinx Search Plugin [...]
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