A PHP Reading List, from IBM
IBM’s developerWorks web site has published a reading list for PHP which spans from overview and getting started topics to more advanced issues like security and integration with third-party resources....
View ArticlePEAR Image_3D Tutorial
Today my article on using PEAR’s Image_3D package was published to IBM’s developerWorks web site. The article explores setting up the package, getting oriented to the 3-D coordinate system, and...
View ArticleAJAX Photo Gallery using the SAJAX toolkit
Sean’s recent article about using SAJAX was published at IBM today. He constructs a simple photo viewer application using an XML file for meta data about each photo. PHP and the SAJAX (Simple AJAX)...
View ArticleImprove PHP Performance by Limiting Session Cookies
I’ve been looking at PHP sessions again for a new project. At Heavy, we’re very conservative about using sessions at all on the site. So I have been thinking about the performance impact of mindlessly...
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Autoloading PHP Classes to Reduce CPU Usage
At Heavy, we have been using a database ORM called Propel for some time now. I’m not a huge fan, to be honest, but it is what it is. One issue that we ran into is that Propel generates about five class...
View ArticlePHP Tag Tokenizer
I found a great tag tokenizer written in PHP. I ran a few quick tests to find out that it does exactly what I was looking for, a space-separated tag parser that recognizes multi-word tags when wrapped...
View ArticleNBC Mobile Runs Zend Framework
And on top of that, it looks like they forgot to turn off display_errors on their production boxes. See photo courtesy of Mr. Smart.
View ArticleSuggestion of the Day: ack
If you use grep regularly while you’re programming, try ack. It’s easy to get setup in your shell account, and takes a short time to get familiar with. Definitely worth the small amount of trouble.
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Two Munin Graphs for Monitoring Our Code
We’re using a few custom Munin graphs at CafeMom to monitor our application code running on production servers. I posted two samples of these to the WebOps Visualization group at Flickr. The first...
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