Geek – Kōrerorero

iKnow

ranginui — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:29:26 +0000

I found iKnow via Nicole’s blog. I’m currently having a play round with it, it seems like a neat idea and I’m having fun with it.

Embed a Book

ranginui — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:05:08 +0000

I thought this was kinda cool ( I chose this book because it has my dad in it)

http://books.google.com/books/previewlib.js

GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(‘D5-5o1Wq8LoC’,400,600);

A geeky way to spend your lunch break

ranginui — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:03:44 +0000

So I spent 20 mins whacking some caching in around the _build_langauges_arrayref subroutine in C4::Languages in Koha.
Before and After. Ill take that as a win. All that needs to be done now is add code to the script that handles updating the language syspref, so that it clears the cache when its changed.

Koha profiling

ranginui — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:03:45 +0000

So far ive only profiled opac-search.pl and opac-main.pl, the results are here. From them I can see doing some caching in the C4::Languages module might speed things up. If you look here you can see its doing a lot of work, and it does this work for each page. So if we cache the data structure resulting from the build_langauges_arrayref, and just return that in the subsequent calls, we should win some decent performance.
Ill work on that tomorrow night, and post the new profiles

More profiling fun

ranginui — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:13:36 +0000

Earlier this year I did a quick little post about profiling the koha code . And I noticed today that Devel::NYTProf (which I used) has been updated, and now has a module for use under mod_perl. So that’s my next mission, once I shake off this cold.