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Whatever happened to Mini SQL?

Does anyone remember Mini SQL (or mSQL)? A few years ago it was a solid contender for MySQL and some even considered it slightly superior over MySQL.
The site is still there, but it looks like it hasn’t changed since years. And the PHP manual still has a chapter on it, as there is still the [...]

Current state of the Horde project

A few days ago I wanted to have a look at the recent releases of IMP and Horde but the main website was down. Since it was a long time ago that I’ve been having a look at it, I was wondering if the project was shut down entirely. I worked with Horde a few [...]

Drupal performance tuning (2) and a patch to the memcache module

Two methods are explained below to serve some of your (anonymous) pages entirely from memcache. The second one is nicer and follows the Drupal way of handling things. The first one is more like a hack.
The hack: modify index.php
If you’re allready using the Drupal memcache module, there is a somewhat clunky way to get your [...]

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