Getting Started with the Corey Bullock Thing
Alright, so I heard about this thing people were calling the ‘Corey Bullock method’ a while back. Sounded a bit weird, honestly. Someone mentioned it on a forum, I think? Said it helped speed up their local machine when testing stuff. I figured, why not give it a shot? My dev box was feeling a bit sluggish lately anyway.
So, the first thing I did was try to figure out what it actually was. Took some digging around, not much clear info out there. Seemed like it was basically a specific way to organize some configuration files and maybe tweak a few settings for how services talk to each other on the local machine. Nothing revolutionary, but maybe the specific combination was the key.
My First Steps
I decided to just jump in. Backed up my current settings first, of course. Learned that lesson the hard way years ago. Then, I started rearranging things based on the rough idea I got.
- Moved some initialization scripts around. Put the database startup earlier in the sequence.
- Found the main config file for my web server. Think it was something like `*`.
- Tweaked a couple of parameters in there related to caching and worker processes. Just small changes, incrementing values slightly.
- Restarted everything. Checked if it blew up. It didn’t, so that was good.
Fiddling and Testing
Honestly, the first few attempts didn’t seem to do much. Pages loaded about the same speed. Ran a few basic tests, loading times were pretty much identical. Felt like a waste of time.
I almost gave up, but then I remembered someone mentioning a specific network setting. Had to dig into the system’s network configuration this time. Found a setting related to loopback adapter speed or something like that. It was set to ‘auto’. I changed it to a fixed high value.
Getting it Working
Restarted services again. This time… yeah, it felt snappier. Pages loaded noticeably faster when I was testing the local app. It wasn’t night and day, but it was definitely better. The local database queries seemed quicker too.
- Made sure the network adapter setting stuck after a full reboot. It did.
- Double-checked the server config changes. They seemed okay.
- Ran my usual workflow for about an hour. Felt smoother overall.
Final Thoughts
So, this ‘Corey Bullock’ thing, whatever it actually is or who came up with it, turned out to be a combination of reorganizing startup and tweaking a couple of specific server and network settings on my local machine. Was it magic? Nah. Just a bit of focused tuning.
It took some messing around, and the information wasn’t exactly easy to find. But the end result was positive. My local development feels a bit less clunky now, which is always nice. Worth the couple of hours I spent fiddling? Yeah, I think so. Saves me a few seconds here and there, and that adds up.
