Barry on WordPress

  • Looking for WordPress geniuses

    If you are attending WordCamp NYC this year and have ever upgraded WordPress, please consider volunteering for an hour at the Genius Bar.

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  • Systems Q&A at WordCamp Dev Day

    Yesterday we had a session about scaling, servers, and WordPress at the 1st WordPress Developer Day in San Francisco.  We used a P2 blog on WordPress.com which allowed people to ask questions and then Demitrious, Chris, and I answered them.  I went back and posted some follow up answers which means that the site will…

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  • AMD Barcelona vs. Intel Nehalem

    We are looking at switching some of our servers from AMD Opteron Barcelona quad-core processors to the new Intel 5520 Nehalem processors. These are both 4 core CPUs, but the Intels utilize hyper-threading, so the OS sees 8 cores per CPU.  It wasn’t that long ago that the first thing you did with a hyper-threading-enabled…

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  • Predicting server hardware failure with mcelog

    Have you ever wanted to predict that a piece of hardware in your server was failing before it actually caused the server to crash? Sure! We all do. Over the past few months, I have been tracking the correlation between errors logged to the Machine Check Event Log (MCElog) and the hard crash of a…

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  • WordPress Code Repository

    We have decided to consolidate all of the small projects we have released into a single subversion repository. Previously these were spread across multiple domains and not very well publicized. We have setup a Trac instance as well to facilitate bug reports. There are 5 projects currently in the repository all of which we have…

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