Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Steve Fox at InfoWorld – IT’s seven dirty words: „IT has its own set of dirty words. Try saying any one of these in polite IT company, and someone will hand you a bar of soap to wash your mouth out.“

Ilia Alshanetsky at OTN – Accelerating PHP Code Performance for Oracle: „In this article, I will describe some of the easiest and most effective techniques for accelerating your PHP applications, which include but are not limited to the use of a script cache, proper Web server and PHP configuration and tuning, and benchmarking and profiling.“

Martijn van Welie has a nice collection of Web Design patterns with examples.

John Lim – Are There Enough Bodies to Satisfy PHP’s Love Affair: „I’m not aware of any popular SQL Server, Oracle or DB2 web framework for PHP. There are probably a few such beasts developed in-house, but not freely available. […] I don’t think that the Web’s love affair with PHP is over, but I…

Bryan Cantrill – DTrace and PHP: „Tonight during our OpenSolaris BOF at OSCON, PHP core developer Wez Furlong was busy adding a DTrace provider to PHP. After a little bit of work (and a little bit of debugging), we got it working — and damn is it cool.“

Robert Kaye – OSCON Day 0: Scalable Internet Architectures: „One of my favorite presentations from last year was Theo Schlossnagel’s presentation on Whack-a-mole, so when I saw him giving a full tutorial on scalability this year, I had to go and check it out. And this year I wasn’t disappointed either — Theo presented a…

Jon Udell – Respecting Lotus Notes: „Notes‘ blurring of the boundaries between document-oriented and record-oriented data was extraordinarily useful. One way to read the history of XML is as an effort (still in progress) to formalize a hybrid data model that embraces both perspectives.“

Tom Evslin – Decompiling Programmer-Speak: „Computers have changed; programming languages have changed; but programmer-speak has remained remarkably constant. […] As a CEO or hope-to-be CEO of a technical company, it is essential that you crack the code. Otherwise you will have no hope of knowing when any particular piece of essential development will be done…

Rasmus Lerdorf – [PHP] Rasmus‘ 30 second AJAX Tutorial: „I find a lot of this AJAX stuff a bit of a hype. Lots of people have been using similar things long before it became „AJAX“. And it really isn’t as complicated as a lot of people make it out to be. Here is a simple…

Joel Spolsky – Hitting the High Notes: „Style. Happiness. Emotional appeal. These are what make the huge hits, in software products, in movies, and in consumer electronics. And if you don’t get this stuff right you may solve the problem but your product doesn’t become the #1 hit that makes everybody in the company rich…