For the last time, the file system is not slow!!
Having started working at Magento I have been making myself more familiar with many of the different parts of the community. I have spent a fair amount of time over the past several weeks
READ ARTICLE
No-.htaccess httpd.conf file for Magento
A couple of days ago I wrote a blog post on how why you should not use .htaccess files, or AllowOverride != All, on a production web server. What you should do is place
Why you should not use .htaccess (AllowOverride All) in production
Commonly known as .htaccess, AllowOverride is a neat little feature that allows you to tweak the server’s behavior without modifying the configuration file or restarting the server. Personally, I think this is great for
Don’t modify index.php in Magento for multi-store configs
unless you really, really have to. I did some quick Googling on this and found that a number of places recommend making changes to index.php. In my humble opinion it is better to leave
indeyets/appserver-in-php · GitHub
indeyets/appserver-in-php · GitHub. Lukas Smith responded on Twitter to a posting of mine I made on this blog about the possibility of having a precompiled bootstrap in PHP that would allow large sections of
Would this be a dumb idea for PHP core?
So, I have been playing around with an idea in my head for a while, a few years now. It really came along as we started seeing more and more PHP applications rely on
10 “what to do’s when setting up Magento” and file inclusion attacks
Found this list of things “to do” on Twitter this morning. I went over the list and saw that there was one item that was missing, which I feel is very important to do.
Starting with Magento on Monday
Having spent several years as a consultant with Zend, working with highly scalable applications, developing many of Zend’s training courses, building mobile applications and doing my best to be a generally good guy I
Generating secure cross site request forgery tokens (csrf)
I don’t talk much about security. This is mostly because it’s such a moving target. I’m also horrified that I might give bad advice and someone will be hacked because of me. But in
Synapses, Volume 2
Hey, it’s a second volume and I haven’t gotten bored yet! I had intended to post one yesterday but I was painting. 5 Reasons Web Speed Is in the Eye of the Beholder I