Author: Rolf Kaiser

In a previous post I offered some hints for getting Windows Search to work better. Here’s another one. Adobe PDF files are ubiquitous, so you’d expect to be able to index them. But Windows doesn’t ship with a “filter” for this format, so you have to download your own. According to Adobe: Adobe currently bundles… Continue reading Index PDF files with Windows 7 64-bit

I was never a fan of Windows Desktop Search. I had stuck with Google Desktop Search for a long time, but gradually got sick of the CPU hogging and so gave Windows Search (on Vista) another try. It seemed to find emails in Outlook well enough, but as a tool for file-searching, it frankly sucked.… Continue reading Making Windows 7 Search a little less dysfunctional

In a previous post I had some instructions for building PHP 5.3 on 64-bit CentOS 5. Turns out the caching extension listed there, eAccelerator, didn’t show a marked performance benefit in our benchmark testing. So instead I decided to play with APC, one of the competitors. Getting this installed was a bit tricky though (e.g.,… Continue reading Installing APC on PHP 5.3

If you’re moving to PHP 5.3, you’ll find that CakePHP throws a lot of “Deprecated” warnings. Since Cake sets error_reporting to E_ALL, you’ll have to edit the core. Change cake/libs/configure.php as follows: error_reporting(E_ALL); to error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_DEPRECATED); That should do it.

I usually set error_reporting to E_ALL when developing (forces you into good coding habits). When upgrading to PHP 5.3, a lot of “Deprecated” messages started showing up in some external software, though (things like CakePHP, WordPress, and Joomla). Since I’m not about to touch that stuff, it’s far easier to simply lower the error reporting… Continue reading Controlling the PHP error level in a WAMP virtual host