Adam R Brown

I realized that my entire site has been loading way too slowly for the past few weeks. I finally traced it to a single typo in the php script that produces those five little pictures in my site header. As a result of the typo, those five pictures were being freshly loaded from picasaweb every time rather than loaded from cache, which dragged my site to a screeching halt.

It’s fixed. My site is much, much faster now. If you’re curious, I had to change this…

refreshAlbumCache($userName,$album,$thumbsize,$imageSize);

to this…

refreshAlbumCache($userName,$album,$thumbsize,$imagesize);

If you think the typo is hard to find in just that line, imagine trying to find that hidden in several hundred lines of code. (I had at least figured out that it was the images script causing the problem, so that saved me some trouble, but it is over 300 lines long.)

grrrrr.