Posts Tagged ‘PHP’

I recently read WordPress 3 Ultimate Security by Olly Connelly and I’m impressed. At nearly 400 pages, the book is overflowing with lots of information on an unwieldy subject that (rightly) keeps some people away from unmanaged hosting. If you’re interested in keeping your WordPress sites as secure as possible, this book might be for you.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. I long ago lost count of how many times I’ve visited php.net. It wasn’t the most beautiful thing in the world but you can teach yourself so much from that site alone. I feel like I’ve seen this design before, long ago, but perhaps not. Either way, I’m really glad that something [...]

jimrubenstein/php-profiler – GitHub. One of the things I’m going to focus on in 2012 is code quality, top to bottom. I want to sweat the details and learn more about writing better code. To do that, you need to use tools. Surely you can understand concepts and design patterns from reading, but actually working with [...]

The HipHop Virtual Machine | Facebook. Many of you know that I haven’t had a Facebook account since it was limited to a college email address, but I can’t help to be intrigued on what they’re doing under the hood. Some time ago, Facebook made waves with what they were doing with PHP, and they [...]

tumbledry.org: 9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM. Articles like these are great perspective. Many times we read articles about servers with 400GB RAM, seven petabytes of storage, and eleven quad-core processors, but I’m most interested in maximizing performance from just about anything. Getting 9 million hits per day on a machine with 120 megs [...]

Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby – Hyperpolyglot. If you’re like me, leaning is often a very hands on process that involves comparisons with things you already know. While I’m not sure it’s the best way to learn a new programming language in and of itself, I do think it’s a nice way to learn [...]

Programming workflows have always been especially interesting to me. It may be due to the wide spectrum of detail that can be achieved from a workflow, and I’d like to see what’s truly useful and valuable as you go about writing code. Debugging is something I plan on researching further.

The past year has shown me that my interest in programming is expanding. That said, it’s an entirely new discipline in which I need to refine my professionalism. There are certain aspects of working within an IDE that I feel will help me accomplish that.

Adding APC to MediaTemple Grid Service | GeekTank. I still use Media Temple’s Grid-Service to host a number of development sites as well as some daily-use applications. I happened to be working on Iron to Iron’s production server, making some optimizations to APC (Alternative PHP Cache) which I use in conjunction with W3 Total Cache. [...]

Ten Things I Hate About Object-Oriented Programming — The JOT Blog. It’s a rarity for me to read a post that does anything but assume the fact of OOP being the best way to approach application development and go from there. This was a nice, refreshing look at some of the frustrations I have when [...]