W3Counter 4.0 Development Log: Background

December 23, 2006

For the next month or two, my primary project will be the downloadable version of W3Counter. The current version is available as a hosted subscription service only, while this will be packaged up so it can be unzipped on any shared hosting environment with PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1.
I have a couple reasons to [...]

PHP Development Environment

December 20, 2006

There have been four phases to the evolution of my PHP development environment. First, I used notepad, FTP and a shared hosting account. WS_FTP to be exact, made by IPSwitch which once sent me a free t-shirt for sending in a testimonial for their website.
Once I took on a job working on a PHP [...]

Computing MySQL Queries Per Second

December 16, 2006

I need an excuse to test out the code highlighting plugin I just installed here, so I’ll share how I display the “visits per second” in the Random Statistics box in the sidebar of this site. The visits per second being processed by W3Counter is computed by dividing the queries per second the database [...]