Gearman is a tool for distributing processing jobs over one or more machines. This article explains how to use Gearman in PHP applications to handle better the load of busy sites or applications that need to execute heavy jobs.

I decided to move to KO3 and ditch the 2.3.x tutorial series. 1st part, configuring and creating a simple controller.

A stable version of PHP 5.3.1 is finally here! Download link and links to view the release announcement, key changes and the full changelog within.

In my previous post I gave some examples on how caching can evolve. However , what annoys me in the second and third approach is that I have some extra code and dependencies which are not really related to my class. The example details how you can use a decorator to cache another class.