by Kevin Schroeder | 7:36 am

Looking for some PHP/Magento contract work

I am looking for some contract work for PHP and/or Magento. Magento 1 is where my primary focus lies, though I have done work on Magento 2 as well. In terms of the type

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:08 am

Browser Communication with Nginx and WebSockets…

… was what I was going to write about.  I’ve been meaning to come up with a solution where I could do a combination of regular HTTP requests combined with Web Sockets combined with Redis

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:58 am

4 charts that are guaranteed to make you a better performance detective

I was giving the Magento Performance and Optimization for System Administrator’s course today and I said something that is either borderline brilliant, stupid, or common knowledge.  What I said was something along the lines

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by Kevin Schroeder | 1:32 pm

I’m actually really excited about Hack and HHVM

When you get to be my age you start thinking about the future.  You start wondering if some of the choices you made when you were younger.  You wonder if those choices are going

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by Kevin Schroeder | 8:29 am

Google finally acknowledges that PHP exists

I read an article today about how PHP is exploding on Google App Engine.  How is it that one of the most despised programming languages in the word is running (as Google claims) up

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by Kevin Schroeder | 8:24 am

What I would love in PHP-FPM

I love most things about PHP, but what I don’t like is that in order for me to do any kind of asynchronous processing I need to create an infrastructure.  In other words, I

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