After several experiences in missing to read important stuff written in small fonts, I thought to write a little about the experiences. This might help some.

Example 1:
If you go to several super foods, health foods website, they say “as seen on CBS, Oprah” etc. I went on to reading what their claim was. Noticed that in smaller fonts, it is written elsewhere on their website - According to CBS, consuming fiber content is very good for the heart. Hence our product that is rich in fiber is very good. CBS has never approved or promoted this product, but still the logos of CBS and other major entities remain on their site with mis leading claims. If we don’t read carefully, we will think that these products are actually approved/promoted by CBS and Oprah and others.

raman amplifierмека мебелonline casinoExample 2:
I recently went to a self service car wash hoping to save some money. It said $3 for car wash. I was excited. Swiped my debit card and started washing my car happily - presoak, foam, rinse, spot free rinse, dryer and everything. When I returned to the billing equipment, it showed $11. I was shocked. Then I happened to read the small fonts, which said, $3 for 4 minutes and so on. I took 15 minutes and hence the $11.

Especially in the US, marketing covers a lot of facts or hides them in small fonts or under labels. So its better to be careful. Try to read the small fonts, find the catch.

After my experiments with flat files and php for Pritlog, when I came to find out that Sqlite would be much more performance effective compared to flat files, I am starting to think if I should move to Sqlite for Pritlog.

As an initial test, I tried using a table with 5000 records. Did all common operations like read, update, search. These operations completed in an instant. Absolutely no performance issues. Users would not even realize that there are 5000 records being accessed. I am impressed.

Sqlite databases are simple files created on the path you specify. Hence, I would think, we can move these around and get the same functionality. Mobility is one thing I would like Pritlog to always have.

I have posted on the Pritlog forum to see the responses from the testers/users about moving to Sqlite.

After releasing the beta version of Pritlog 0.412, I started doing performance tests on Pritlog using varying number of posts. When I reached over 500 posts, I started noticing performance issues and slow response times. Crossing 1000, it almost was not responding.

This is when I started searching for a better solution for using flat files in PHP. I came across the following solutions of using flat file databases in PHP. These use SQL to retrieve rows from a flat file. Very interesting. But the performance did not improve any as these were still flat files. Anyway, these are interesting and can be very useful.

* http://www.txtsql.com/ - (has an admin like phpmyadmin)
* http://code.google.com/p/phpsimpledb/
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdb-php/
* http://lukeplant.me.uk/resources/flatfile/

Below link has some discussion about flat file db’s.
http://www.usenet-forums.com/php-language/393159-pure-php-flat-file-databases.html

In many places, I found that Sqlite is recommended for speed and performance. It is much more superior than flat files and also, it is installed by default on most php installations. Hence no separate server install or software required.

My wife and I - love the taste of grilled food. As we dont have that kind of backyard space for a real grill, we tried to grill using the oven, but this never tasted that good.

Once my friend suggested George foreman’s grill. I have never heard that name before. We found a small version of this for about $25. This small version could grill 4 servings at once. This was enough for the two of us.

This is an electric grill with a little tilt so that any extra oil flows off of the fish/meat. The grilling can be done completely indoors.

We started with Salmon and it came out very well. Almost like the taste of a regular outdoor grill. It removes lot of oil/fat from any meat that we grill because of the tilted design. In the last few weeks of using it, we have grilled salmon, chicken. Yet to try steak.

But for those of you who love the taste of grilled food and start off with a small one, this is ideal.