Jen in Cambodia (VSO)
Just writing a quick note to let anyone who reads this know about one of my colleagues blogs, Jen in Cambodia - she’s gone over there to work as a VSO recently and has already written some thought provoking pieces on the legacy of the Khmer Rouge and landmines. Please check it out.

Where have you been?
visited 19 states (8.44%) Courtesy of Douwe Osinga (go there to make your own map), via Matt Cutts.

Scaling PHP apps on WAMP/WIMP
Things I’ve learned about deploying a busy PHP application on Amazon EC2 WAMP/WIMP stacks (the hard way) In no particular order: APC and __autoload Rasmus said __autoload doesn’t play nice with APC. This might have been true in 2006 when the blog post was written but it doesn’t seem so much following my tests (PHP 5.2.10 with APC 3.0.15). Our web application uses Ruby-esque MVC and URL dispatching with runtime context dependent class instantiation. There are around 28 controller and model classes. Including all of these every view incurred something l