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 I work as an independent systems consultant in Queensland, Australia, specialising in data warehousing and database design.
Here you will find essays on Perl, implementing wifi in linux, &
designing fast websites. In the coming months I'll be writing on implementing reverse proxies with Squid; and novel ways of detecting spam with Postfix based on spam signatures; a review of Solaris 10.
I develop/host/manage a number of websites using contemporary technologies. These sites are my own work, including graphic design:
Oracle/Perl sites:
- PC Headquarters ecommerce site; currently developing ordering & warehousing modules
- float.com.au/
Ipo-Australia.com
A data warehouse of historical stock prices at the moment. This site has become the most popular source of historical stock prices on the ASX (Australian Stock Exchange) with 20,000 downloads/day
PHP/MySql/vBulletin site:
- AusInvestor.com Australian Investor Forum - I need to add more content based on ASX data in the data warehouse
PHP/MySql/Mambo Open Source sites:
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This is a brief howto on adding wifi to a laptop or desktop using a cheap, common 802.11b device. For SuSE 9.1 its just about all done for you; other distributions may need to do more work. 
Nobody likes waiting for a website to load into a browser. When a site takes more than a few seconds to start loading users will leave. So how do you make a web site that loads fast? Here are techniques that I have developed over a number of years to improve website response, particularly for database-driven sites. 
