Energy House Digital were asked to design and develop the website for the Launch of the brand and new Model Mirror™ product range and you can see the results at www.lestaitai.com.

The Model Mirror™ has 8 embedded LED lights on one of its two mirror faces, this makeup mirror lights up with the touch of a switch. With so many designs to choose from, the Model Mirror™ is the perfect gift for each of your girlfriends.

We certainly think the mirrors look cool and the ladies in our lives now all want one too!

Medical simulators use the technological advances to allow medical professionals to hone their skills on simulated patients. With realistic clinical scenarios being reliably reproduced there is no risk to the patient. According to The Royal Free Simulation Centre ‘The application of screen-based technologies can improve the patients’ experience by enhancing healthcare professional standards within their area of expertise.’

As simulation within medicine is still relatively new there is still  alot of research that needs to be done.  However according to the small amount of research that has been done, students using advanced medical simulation training methods have higher retention and perform substantially better than their colleagues using traditional paper based learning. And with the Institute of Medicine estimating that 44,000 to 98,000 deaths annually are recorded due primarily to medical mistakes during treatment any new training that can assist in bringing that number down will be more than welcome.

Their are several efficiency gains that come with medical simulation too – cost, time and the number of personnel required for training are all reduced with the use of medical simulators, plus other benefits including the ability to store and track performance history and global statistics for several linked medical simulators.

So the future for medical simulation is extremely exciting and the potential for growth is huge. The RFH Medical Simulation Centre believes that ‘this is just the beginning of an extraordinary journey towards a different way of thinking innovation in education and training…’

Energy House Digital designed and developed the website for the Royal Free Hospital Simulation Centre which gives users access to information on the simulators and the centre as well as allow the user to book courses and time slots on the simulators using a ‘hotel style’ booking system. The website is the first port of call for prospective visitors to the centre so it was important that it too used innovation and intelligent technology to create an enjoyable user experience. See the live site here

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Of course you have the option of Saxon or various Apache modules, but what if you want a little more control, from within your web application? Easy, PHP has an XSLT Processor “built in”.

Quick Example;

It’s as easy as that.

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Ok, so let’s grab lighttpd, php and MySQL

apt-get install lighttpd php5-cgi php5-cli php5-mysql mysql-server

You may want to add any other php modules that you may require, such as php5-curl, php5-gd etc.

Next, as lighttpd automatically assumes you’re using php4, we need to update the fastcgi php path in:

/etc/lighttpd/conf-available/10-fastcgi.conf

Look for the line

"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php4-cgi",

and replace it with

"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php5-cgi",

Simple.

While you have the file open, change

"max-procs" => 2,

and

"PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" => "2",

This will reduce the number of waiting fastcgi instances, thus reducing ram. If you have a particularly busy site, you may want to either leave this, or perhaps even increase it.

Now enable fastcgi module in lighttpd

lighty-enable-mod fastcgi

Restart lighttpd

/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

You now have lighttpd running perfectly with php5.

You might now want to add some virtual hosts. For example purposes, we’ll call these foo.com and bar.net

Create your directory structure:

mkdir /home/sites/foo.com
mkdir -p /home/sites/foo.com/http
mkdir -p /home/sites/foo.com/logs

mkdir /home/sites/bar.net
mkdir -p /home/sites/bar.net/http
mkdir -p /home/sites/logs

Give ownership of the logs directory to the web server

chown www-data /home/sites/foo.com/logs
chown www-data /home/sites/bar.net/logs

Once we’ve done this, we can sort out the config side of things.
Open up

/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Include the configuration files you’ll use for each of your domains

include "foo.com.conf"
include "bar.net.conf"

Now open up

/etc/lighttpd/foo.com.conf

and add

$HTTP["host"] =~ "foo\.com" {
server.document-root = "/home/sites/foo.com/http"
accesslog.filename         = "/home/sites/foo.com/logs/access.log"
}

and the same for

bar.net.conf

$HTTP["host"] =~ "bar\.net" {
server.document-root = "/home/sites/bar.net/http"
accesslog.filename         = "/home/sites/bar.net/logs/access.log"
}

Again, restart lighttpd

/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

and you’re done.

For MySQL

I simply altered some of it’s fine tuning values.
Open

/etc/mysql/my.cnf

and change the following values

key_buffer              = 16K
max_allowed_packet      = 1M
thread_stack            = 64K
thread_cache_size       = 8
#max_connections        = 100
table_cache            = 4