About Me
I'm a contract Java developer working in Melbourne for the past 10+ years.
More recently I created onmydoorstep.com.au, a place to find out more about where you live in Australia.
I'm also active in the open-source community with several projects ongoing.
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Tag Archives: servers
Setting Up Memcached As A Windows Service
Memcached is an in-memory, distributed key-value store for random pieces of application data. It is useful for clustering and distributed caching and it (and similar tools) are becoming an increasingly common feature of large Web-based apps. I don’t like Windows … Continue reading
The Results Are In…
And as it turns out, Linode is far, far faster as well as being more consistent for the hosting of this site. Take a look at the graphs, the first was captured from this site in the last couple of … Continue reading
Move to Linode Complete!
The blog is now happily running on my linode instance! I had previously been hosting the blog on Dreamhost, and had been pretty happy with the service. Recently though, I signed up for a free Pingdom account. Pingdom is a … Continue reading
