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Can browse my site using http://127.0.0.1, http://<machine_IP_address> but cannot browse the same site using http://localhost
Aug 19, 2010

Yesterday our Product Manager faced a strange problem on his Windows 7 box. He created a site (which was a PHP application) but was not able to browse the site using http://localhost . He was getting HTTP status code 503 (Service...

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Microsoft PHP driver for SQL Server 2.0 released
Aug 06, 2010

The SQL Server team just announced the release of their latest PHP driver for SQL Server. Details about the release can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlphp/archive/2010/08/04/microsoft-drivers-for-php-for-sql-server-2-0...

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MySQL install failure – Security settings cannot be applied
Jun 19, 2010

One of the reason I love MySQL is the fact that it is so easy to install. Take the MSI, run it, invoke MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard and done. I adore this simplicity and this enables me to focus on core problems...

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PHP 5.3 and MySQL connectivity problem
Jun 11, 2010

I have seen so many post in our IIS forum mentioning that after moving to PHP5.3 they are not able to connect to MySQL database. So this means a simple program like the one below doesn’t work: <?php // hostname or ip of server...

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Sugar and Mediawiki added support for WINCACHE user cache
May 18, 2010

The support for WINCACHE has been added into Sugar Community Edition 6.0 Beta bits. The latest bits which supports WINCACHE out of the box can be downloaded from http://www.sugarforge.org/frs/?group_id=6 . Remember Sugar 6.0 bits...

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Readers-Writers Problem and WINCACHE
May 10, 2010

This is a very common problem which most of us has studied in our academic days. This we learn as part of process synchronization or concurrency. For the sake of this discussion let’s assume we have multiple process accessing...

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Testing File Change Notification support on WinCache 1.1 Beta2
May 04, 2010

As you all know we did a Beta2 release of WINCACHE 1.1 few days back. This is a very important release with lots of bug fixes and new features. I would encourage all current users of WINCACHE to upgrade to Beta2 latest build....

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File Change Notification support on WinCache 1.1 Beta2
Apr 29, 2010

As you all know we did a Beta2 release of WINCACHE 1.1 today. This is a very important release with lots of bug fixes and new features. I would encourage all current users of WINCACHE to upgrade to latest Beta2 build. With this...

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Performance improvements in Drupal with WINCACHE user cache
Mar 15, 2010

Now that WINCACHE 1.1 Beta is released and it has support for user cache, you can enhance Drupal’s performance by integrating WINCACHE user cache. For this you will need to have two things already setup: Drupal running Drupal...

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Performance improvement in Joomla with WINCACHE user cache to cache session
Mar 05, 2010 Attachment: wincache.zip

Now that we have WINCACHE 1.1 Beta release which supports user as well as session cache, I am going to tell you a way to integrate session cache with Joomla using WINCACHE. Joomla has the way of integrating session cache based...

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Performance improvement in Joomla using WINCACHE user cache
Mar 05, 2010 Attachment: wincache.zip

Now that we have WINCACHE 1.1 Beta released which has got implementation for both user and session cache, one can easily take advantage of WINCACHE user cache and increase performance of Joomla. In this post I am going to tell...

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Troubleshoot – My PHP script is timing out
Feb 08, 2010

I hear a lot about the problem where web server (IIS) throws an error saying that PHP script has timed out in our forums . Let’s try to understand the reason behind this. I will be using a Windows 7 Enterprise machine (having...

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