Synapses, Volume 1
That word is a combination of synopsis and synapse. Technically it’s the plural of synapse but in my case it’s intended to be a combination of the two words since I’m combining short commentary
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The IBM i Programmer’s Guide to PHP… second edition?
Yep! PHP is still making strides on the IBM i and people are loving it. But with the world’s premier book for PHP on the i Series developer now several years old it is
Magento, ESI, Varnish and performance
I have been doing a little playing with Magento over the past couple of days. I’ve been helping out Ebay/Magento by delivering some of their performance training over the past few months. I’m by
Looking for some interesting work
So, if you remember from one of my earlier posts I had decided to stop working on mobile applications. There were a number of things that I learned from the experience, many of which
Setting max_input_time (with data!)
I asked a question on Twitter on why some of the recommend max_input_time settings seem to be ridiculously large. Some of the defaults I’ve seen have been upwards of 60 seconds. However, after thinking
undefined reference to `__sync_add_and_fetch_4′ when compiling Redis
I’m intending to play around with Redis a little over the next few days. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time and I may have found a reason for me to
How to use PHP with MySQL (without SQL Injection vulnerabilities)
Chris Dale recently posted a horrifying article on his blog. It is called “Why it’s easy being a hacker – A SQL injection case study“. The most horrifying part of the post was that
Why is FastCGI /w Nginx so much faster than Apache /w mod_php?
I have a new post on using Jetty with PHP-FPM that, if you think this is interesting, you should check that one out. (this post has a sister post on Apache’s event MPM compared to
You gotta know when to fold ’em
As much as I dislike country music Kenny Rogers sure got it right there. I left Zend around May of last year, continuing work through June and did some sporadic work on ZendCon 2012 until it
Webview orientation with Phonegap
I was having this really weird problem in PhoneGap where when the orientation would change the webview would not resize to fit the whole screen. Turns out that the meta viewport tag was causing