Amado Martinez

A couple of years back, a client of mine decided to hire me to develop a custom application for automating certain actions based on sales information provided by clickbank’s api. This software is one of the most interesting projects I have worked on simply because of the array of services that it integrates and the things you are able to do with it.

Recently, I had to use the super handy WordPress Calendar Plugin. After adding a few repeating events and taking a look at the output it generated, I noticed the large number of queries that it executed! It executed at least 3 queries per day of the month being displayed! I was doing development that required displaying two months at a time, and the total number of queries was over 150!!…