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Thursday, January 16, 2003

I now have a Palm

Well, I now have a brand new (to me) Palm IIIe. Hi-tech Hey, beggars can't be choosers right? My friend was nice enough to give me his old Palm as a gift. I'm now entering my school schedule into it.

The only thing I'm generally annoyed about now is that I have information duplicated everywhere. I have my address book (mainly for e-mail addresses) in Outlook Express, I have everyone's phone numbers in my cell phone, and now I'm going to have to enter everything (manually, since he didn't have the cradle) into my Palm. I'll have some information in three places, which seems kind of crazy. I suppose if I make the Palm the only "official" place for addresses, I can cut duplication down to just e-mail addresses and phone numbers...

Cool, now I get to configure my Palm the way David Allen suggests (PDF).

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PHP profiling

Hey, anyone know how to easily profile PHP code? I've just now for the first time been able to get a semi-realistic speed comparison between my weblog running under my CMS and my "legacy" weblog code. My CMS code seems to be about 30-40% slower. I expected some slowdown, of course, since my CMS is doing more in the background. Plus, it's totally not optimized and some parts of it are still hacked together - so I'm including modules I won't have to when the CMS is done, etc. But I took a larger hit than I expected and I'd like to see where my code is spending the most time so I understand what's going on.

Here's one article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2002/02/28/profilingphp.html

Oh man do I want this: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/pecl.apd.php

Here's the page for the PEAR Benchmark package featured in the above O'Reilly article.

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