PHP: Performance Improvement Tips
This post covers some performance improvement tips by showing merits or demerits of various coding practices in PHP. While developing small websites... more »
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12 PHP optimization tips
PHP optimization tips that you can use for your own website.
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Drizzle, Clouds, "What If?"
Have you ever wanted to know what would happen if you had taken a different direction? A number of months ago I was on the phone with the Rackspace... more »
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Simple config management for PHP
When doing complex applications it’s often nice to have some sort of system for handling settings. PHP has a nice function called parse_ini_file which... more »
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Testing IE Versions Just Got a Little Easier
Testing your sites on different versions of Internet Explorer has always been notoriously difficult mainly due to the fact that Microsoft prevents you... more »
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40 Tips for optimizing your PHP code
Certainly the world would be a better place if more PHP code was optimized. Maybe some of these tips can help!
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Reducing coupling through unit tests
After my previous post on the subject of coupling and cohesion, a lot of the feedback I've gotten has been from people who want examples of lowering... more »
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Twitter as a scalability case study
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A lot has been said already about Twitter's scalability issues. Many have given Twitter as an anti-pattern of how not to deal with scalability and... more »
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Use examples to make your code easier to understand
Einstein said that examples is not another way to teach, it is the only way. How does that apply to programming?
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Some unusual comparison operations in PHP
In this post you'll see the unusual result of few comparison operations in PHP.
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JavaScript Compression using Canvas and PNG-embedded data
Jacob Sedelin continues the mad experiments. The well-known founder of Javascript-ports Mario and Wolfenstein 3D was come to mind by idea to keep a... more »
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The Rubyists are Wrong
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There's something that's been bugging me for a long time that I need to get off my chest. Some of you may hate me for it, but perhaps there are others... more »
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Aiming for 'cartoon code' first
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In these days of high tempo projects and agile practices we're seeing a resurgence of interest in the craft of writing great and beautiful code.... more »
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The State of PHP
People are getting increasingly worried about PHP5's adoption rate. And rightly so. PHP5 has been released more than two years ago. If you look at the... more »
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Home Based Business Opportunity
I think there are three types of people, people that make it happen, people that watch it happen and people that say What happened? WHICH ONE ARE YOU!... more »
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Scalr - redundant, self-curing, self-scaling hosting solution built on EC2
Scalr utilizes EC2 to provide a redundant multi-tiered hosting environment self-cures and auto-scales based on server loads.
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April Fools! Change Your PHP Pages to ASP...Or Not
I don't know a lot of PHP developers that think very much of ASP. This, of course, sets the stage for a great April fools trick: we're going to change... more »
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The case against passion
Programming is not all about passion. Passion is the antithesis of good programming. To claim (or even worse, to imply) that good programmers are... more »
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Automatic testing of setters and getters
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Normally I do not bother testing setters and getters, they are usually too boring to expect any bugs lurking in there. I recently started working on a... more »
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What else do companies have to do to keep Software Engineers?
A Simple list of what to do to keep a Software Engineer.
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Employment Graph
I saw the job trends data and thought I’d recommend Simply Hired’s free Employment Trends tool. You can use it to generate interesting, auto-updating... more »
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Firefox 3...Nearly ready?
I opened up the Beta 4 of Firefox, but it won't start. Apparently Firefox is ready to be released any time soon... hmmmmmmmm.
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Why do open source web apps suck?
I’m a professional web developer, so it goes without saying that I’ve seen my fair share of off-the-shelf open source web applications. I’ve also seen... more »
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Tutorial: Getting Started with Zend Framework 1.5
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This tutorial has been tested on version 1.5.0 of the Zend Framework. It stands a very good chance of working with later versions. It will not work on... more »
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