How to update the remote content of a Modal in Twitter Bootstrap

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Twitter Bootstrap is a very good tool with beautiful graphics and lots of tiny useful objects.

The Modal object is nice and lightweight, and is also able to load remote content. I liked it and wanted to use it on a list of links, loading new content every time a link was pressed.

The problem

Unfortunately, I found that the Modal remote content load feature works only the first time the object is used! Once a Modal object is instantiated, it is persistently attached to the element specified by data-target; subsequent calls to show it will only call toggle() on it, but will not update its content. This is because the remote load is done in the constructor of the Modal object, so even changing its properties, the content won’t be updated.

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MySql performance optimization tricks

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MySql performance optimization is an interesting task, I like to focus on it on my free time.

Please note that these are house rules. There is no guarantee that your performance will improve. Use with precautions!

key_buffer_size

An important variable setting is key_buffer_size; a good value is the 20% of total RAM.

Here it is a sample:

key_buffer_size = 820M

max_connections

Also, the max_connections variable could be safely lowered from its default value. Take a look at your Max used connections status variable; you can safely set the max_connections to Max used connections x 5, with a minimum of 40.

Sample:

max_connections = 85

tmp_table_size and max_heap_table_size

Finally, it’s important to take a look to tmp_table_size and max_heap_table_size. You can get a good value for them by dividing the available RAM by the max_connections variable.

Sample:

# Total RAM: 4GB; Mysql supposed available RAM: 3GB; Max_connections: 85;
# Good Value = 3GB / 80 = 35MB
tmp_table_size = 35M
max_heap_table_size = 35M

Thank you 500000!

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This is a special day for our little project! The Really Simple Share plugin just reached 500,000 downloads; at the same time our Really Simple Twitter Widget plugin reached 100,000 downloads.

We’re busy keeping them (and the other plugins) update and working. At the moment we’re focusing on the Twitter side, making every plugin API 1.1 compliant.

Thank you everyone, for your requests and support!

Cool companies using WordPress in Rome

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Plugin development for WordPress in Rome? Yes we can!

Today the 2.9 release of Really simple Facebook Twitter share buttons for WordPress is out, with a brand new Pinterest implementation… I recommend you to update quickly because Pinterest backward compatibility is virtually non-existent.

In the meanwhile, here are some links of cool italian companies, using WordPress in Rome  on a daily basis and active on free plugin development.

I’ve collaborated with them and I can say they’re all very talented people: