An article I wrote about my experiences experimenting with Facebook's HipHopVM JIT Compiler for PHP. 


What does it mean? It means once I get it installed on the live site, assuming it's stable over the longer term, the site will be MUCH faster.

One step closer to getting the site up on HHVM:

Just a heads up, the site is now running on a dedicated server kindly provided by rshaug. 
Aside from the dedicated box, you should notice a dramatic decrease in page load times. This is due to a combination of things including:

We are now running on Facebook's HipHopVM platform which is described pretty well in this article:


. There were some major (and stupid) problems in the code that was causing it to do way more processing than it needed to. 

All in all you should be seeing something around a 10X improvement.

The HipHopVM platform is unproven so there may be significant and weird problems. If you notice serious weirdness please let me know.  

At long last and after many requests, I've finally managed to rebuild
 the daily digest with what are hopefully some improvements. I'm trying
an HTML format so you can see photos posted. For some reason it looks
like the email isn't being formatted right under Android. I'll try to
track that down. If the message shows up garbed for you, please let me know.

I've put a lot of effort into moving the "do not send" preferences
over. I think I've got it right. However, if you're getting this email
and you don't want it, you can change it in your settings. If that
doesn't work just let me know and I'll take care of it immediately (and
will apologize profusely for the inconvenience).

I'm going to be taking this live on Monday.

I ran into some last minute glitches having to do with Android and Gmail. I think I have them resolved. 

Little bug fix. The daily group digest was showing all photos as being shared by the last poster in the forum, in this case Ian. It's been fixed. Sorry about that.

You now add titles to the Photos themselves the way they do in meme's. Just check the "add title to photo" checkbox when uploading the photo. You can also add a byline with your profile URL to the bottom to declare the photos yours.

Embedded Object Error

And:

And it looks like I've finally fixed that annoying but that was causing "'s to show up in titles when posts were shared to Facebook.

I've made a bunch of other minor fixes as well.

I'll write up a separate thread about this but I've reworked the editor I use for these forum posts. (By the skin of my teeth I might add. I was about to throw in the towel. There's a reason Facebook doesn't do it this way ... it's honestly difficult to get right.)

This post is mostly a test. I'm testing from Chrome under Linux to see if I can get the backspace key, delete key or arrow key to do something they are not supposed to. Or to get the double newline problem to recur.

This is a test

this is another test inserting an object:



 

this is a test

this is a test 

   

Embedded Object Error
Ok, it looks like pasting of links no longer works /after/ something has been inserted off the INSERT menu.

http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/sena-smh-10-helmet-c...;

This is a test from an android phone. buffalo

I upgraded the site today to fix some more minor bugs. Unfortunately, a side effect is that everyone will need to log back in. 

If you notice any problems please let me know.

Another day, another few updates.

I've found and fixed a number of bugs. Actually, fixing bugs in my own code is not all that challenging. However, when my code breaks because third party code that I use has issues, it's particularly difficult and time consuming.

This bug was actually causing a number of problems for the editor: 


So I spent the day crawling through the "jQuery UI" project source code to find and fix this issue, so now the tag and @ mention dropdowns should be much more reliable. 

Also, I've fixed the dropdown in the tagging/bookmarking dialog so it doesn't destroy itself with long lists of tags. (You can bookmark anything on the site by clicking the bookmark link under it. You'll see how other people have tagged it and you can add your own tags to it.)

I also made the bookmark dialog smaller.

The advanced search box should now work even if you select some tags or @ mentions. Previously it was closing the window if you selected something  from the dropdown. Very annoying. However, you now have to click CANCEL in the box to get it to close.

This is a test.

This is another test.

And another test.

If fixed another few bugs in the editor having to do with dropdown menus.

Is anyone having problems with writing posts now that I have made these bug fixes? 

So I was over at buffalo's house and he uncovered a number of bugs with searching which I think I now have fixed.

* If you weren't logged in, the tags dropdown wouldn't display.

* If you opened the advanced search dialog, closed it, and then opened it again, the tags dropdown wouldn't display.

* In some cases tags were getting duplicated which caused some problems in the database. I've fixed the database and the code, so this problem should be resolved. We did lose some tags on items unfortunately. 

For reference, if you see something you want to remember, you can click the "bookmark" link and add some of your own tags to it allowing you to find it again quickly. 

I spent the day attempting to improve how links are handled.
The way it's supposed to work is that a dropdown preview window should appear after you've pasted or typed in a link. You can use that drop down to adjust the title, description, image and/or tags associated with the link.

When we do it this way, the link doesn't just show up here in the forum but also gets added to the Links list (via top menu) and will show up separately in searches.

The problem was the dropdown wasn't automatically opening. It turns out dealing with pasted text into these editor windows is a bit ugly and challenging. I think I have it working for Chrome, Safari and Firefox. MSIE is still flakey at the moment. 

I also fixed a bug where the editor features would fail under some circumstances. We'll see if this is an improvement. I do hope that slowly this stuff is getting better.

So I figure I should test this:


#tires 

Looks like it works, at least in Chrome. Please try sharing a few links to motorcycle related stuff and let me know if it breaks for you. Thanks.

Looks like t works Yermo. The post above IS MC related as the OL and I plan on doing the blues trail in MS this year