Lucas Chan
Systems Manager for SitePoint, Lucas has been building the web since 1996. His experience covers Content Management, Online Learning, Documentation Management, Product Ordering and ecommerce systems across Linux(Debian/Redhat/CentOS), Mac OS, FreeBSD and Microsoft platforms.
Lucas Chan
Amazon has announced that its popular EC2 service is now officially out of beta. With this comes an SLA that promises 99.95% uptime, along with a raft of other announcements including beta support... Read More
It seems that Google has recently changed their PageRank algorithm. A number of sites have experienced a significant drop in PageRank as a result. Boing Boing: Was 9, now 7. Engadget: Was 7, now 5.... Read More
The growth of a typical web site might look a little like something this: You build the first version of your site and deploy it into a shared hosting environment (Dreamhost, etc). All is well. You... Read More
Digital Web recently published an article about “Client Side Load Balancing for Web 2.0 Applications“. I wanted to take a moment to explain why I think this load balancing technique is a... Read More
There’s been much hoo-hah regarding the font rendering in Apple’s beta release of Safari for Windows. I decided to install the beta myself and see what all the fuss is about. Here’s... Read More
Raena, co-author of SitePoint’s Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes, shows how to boost your theme development efforts using the Thematic theme framework. It will save you heaps of tedious setup... Read More
Introducing “The Coop“. An experimental Firefox add-on that will let you to see what your friends are doing online, as well as share content with them from popular web services such as... Read More
Rails plugins can help you do all sorts of things. Installing them is a lot simpler than you might think, deploying them is easy, and they’re a neat way of packaging and reusing your own code.... Read More
Keen to give this Ruby thing a go, but don’t have the time/resources/know-how to set up a test environment? There’s a spanky little interactive Ruby tutorial you can try. All you need is... Read More
The new releases include several security fixes relating to the exif and fbsql extensions, as well as the unserialize(), swf_definepoly() and getimagesize() functions. There are also over 70... Read More
Hi, my name is Lucas Chan. I’m also a resident coder at SitePoint HQ and I’ll be popping my head in here from time to time to help out with the PHP blog. Over the past week or so... Read More
