18th
MAY

Stopping mySQL “too many connections” errors in PHP

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Posted by Lee under General

At 5:03pm last Friday afternoon whilst demoing a new site to a client I came to see the ever so lovely “too many connections” error from mySQL (or in the case of CodeIgniter - could not connect to database error). I knew what was going to hit me next, the calls from clients who are having problems as well accessing their websites - and sure enough about 5 minutes later they started to come through so I just did a quick restart of mySQL and Apache which cleared the problem, but I wanted to work out how to stop this from happening again.

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24th
APR

New design now online (finally!)

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Posted by Lee under General

I have just completed the new design for this blog - still got a few things to tweak such as the sidebar but I just wanted to get the new design live so we can place some of the CodeIgniter Libraries that we have been planning on releasing on here.

Feel free to leave any comments about what you think of the design - I just went for something nice and simple and to the point as this site will be mainly content driven.

4th
DEC

Hello to all!

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Posted by Lee under General

This will be the home to the PX Webdesign Lab blog covering all of our developments along with technical information and help covering the following subjects:

  • CSS
  • XHTML / HTML
  • AJAX
  • jQuery
  • Javascript
  • PHP
  • mySQL
  • Photoshop

So keep an eye out here in the coming weeks for more information.

This blog will undergo a re-design very shortly as well - we are just using a temporary theme until we have the new design prepared.

The Lab is the web development blog for PX Webdesign that covers many subjects from PHP, CSS, jQuery, CodeIgniter, Design and XHTML / HTML