Today I’ve published my first Chrome extension for my current employer Jaumo.
It is just a proof of concept and the first publicly available item that uses our in-development REST-API.
Go have your Jaumo message status indicated directly in Google Chrome:
Grab the extension now!
Everybody is talking about caching to increase performance but noone tells you exactly what to cache.
One simple strategy is to cache all database access.
We’ve built a data access layer that will cache every single dataset and lists of IDs for conditional sets.
There is no join on the database layer. This is all done by the application.
If you call a page twice, the second request won’t do any database queries to retrieve the displayed data.
It comes all from the cache. Changing data will update the cache and deleting will invalidate it.
Until now, the system runs very smooth and fast.
I’ll share future experiences by the time.
It’s very cool not to have to write database queries any more :-)
Deterministic function calls always lead to wasted performance. They have to be computed every time but will always return the same boring result. Let’s get rid of them!
Example:
Assume your abstract controller provides a translation function $controller->translate()
$this->translate('helloWorld'); |
will always return “Hello World”. We can easily replace the function call with the static content.
It’s getting a little more tricky as soon as you pass some parameters to the function.
$this->translate('helloUser', $username); |
The main translation part still is static, so let’s just replace the dynamic part.
sprintf('Salut %1$s', $username); |
Built-in functions like sprintf will always be faster than your custom-made translate-and-replace stuff.
Finally store the pre-processed script for each language and let you autoloader choose which one to use.
I’ve recently announced our latest project at work: jaumo.com
It’s open to public from now on. Feel free to visit and send feedback.
Fresh from the rocket science works of the KWICK! laboratory:
jaumo.com is online!
Quick, easy and simple – that’s the way we make our date today. For that reason Jaumo does not waste your time with complicated registration processes, analysis or tests. There is also no subscription required. Just start your active search for a new partner and enjoy to meet him if he seems to be the right one. Quick, anonymous and safe. Sign up for free now and start flirting.
The product is currently in an invite-only alpha stage and will be released to public in just a few weeks.
Happy flirting!