Lucas Chan

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's articles

EC2 out of Beta: Now with Windows Support & More

Web

By Lucas Chan, October 24, 2008

Amazon announced today that EC2 is dropping “beta” status and is now production ready. On top of this they are now committing to a 99.95% uptime SLA.

Changes to PageRank?

By Lucas Chan, October 25, 2007

In this article, you'll see the PageRank of a few sites. A number of sites have experienced a significant drop in PageRank as a result.

Are You Ready to Scale?

Programming

By Lucas Chan, October 17, 2007

Client-side Load Balancing Web 2.0 Apps is Voodoo

Programming

By Lucas Chan, October 05, 2007

Not-so ClearType :: Apple FTW

By Lucas Chan, June 15, 2007

Virtualization – Save Time, Money and Sanity

Programming

By Lucas Chan, April 20, 2007

Flocking To The Coop

Programming

By Lucas Chan, April 06, 2007

Using Plugins in Your App

Programming

By Lucas Chan, May 05, 2006

Try Ruby!

Programming

By Lucas Chan, April 20, 2006

PHP 4.3.11 and 5.04 Released

Programming

By Lucas Chan, March 31, 2005

PHP 4.3.11 and 5.04 Released. The new releases include several security fixes relating to the exif and fbsql extensions, as well as the unserialize(), swf_definepoly() and getimagesize() functions.