Scaling Facebook with OpenSource tools
This talk will give you a better idea of what it takes to scale Facebook.
View ArticleAdvanced OO Patterns in PHP
You already know Singleton, Signal/Observer, Factory and friends. But, which object oriented patterns are en vogue in the PHP world and how can you seize their power? This talk gives you an overview on...
View ArticlePHP to Python with No Regrets
At Emma, we are transforming an eight year old PHP codebase into an API-driven service written in Python. Facing down the triple threat of bad data, encoding issues, and a generation of code cruft,...
View ArticleLessons of Scale at Facebook
From the 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Keynote Address, Bobby Johnson, Director of Engineering, Facebook, Inc. discusses how in just over six years Facebook has grown from an idea in a dorm...
View ArticleLarge Scale Data Processing with Hadoop and PHP – David Zuelke
The MapReduce framework promises to make computing of large sets of data very easy. The approach offers excellent scalability across many computing nodes, and can easily be integrated with existing...
View ArticlePHP UK Conference 2012 – Keynote: A look at PHP in 2012, by Rasmus Lerdorf
http://www.phpconference.co.uk/talk/php-in-2012 Rasmus Lerdorf, best known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995, gives an update on PHP as he sees it in 2012. From PHP humble...
View ArticlePHP UK Conference 2012 – Masterizing PHP Data Structure 102, by Patrick Allaert
http://www.phpconference.co.uk/talk/masterizing-php-data-structure-102 We all have certainly learned data structures at school: arrays, lists, sets, stacks, queues (LIFO/FIFO), heaps, associative...
View ArticlePHP UK Conference 2012 – Monitoring your back-end for speed and profit by...
At the BBC we are preparing for the some big events in the coming year (the Olympics amongst them), as we don’t have to cash to splash on new hardware in the current economic climate and our frozen...
View ArticleMultiple File Upload with Codeigniter + Uploadify
A tutorial on using Uploadify with Codeigniter for multiple uploads. Multiple Upload Codeigniter. Uploadify and Codeigniter. Howto upload multiple files using codeigniter and uploadify.
View ArticleO’Reilly Webcast: PHP and CouchDB
Presented by Benjamin Young. This talk covers the basics of the CouchDB HTTP API and how to use it from PHP with and without helper libraries. We discuss some architecture approaches and briefly look...
View ArticleFabien Potencier: Symfony2
Symfony2 is a major improvement over the popular symfony 1 framework. Based on an innovative architecture, it’s a very easy to learn framework for newcomers, and a very flexible one for advanced users....
View ArticleThe State of PHP
This talk will talk about the current state of PHP, the newer 5.3 features starting to appear in distribution packages of PHP, and where PHP development is going after the great PHP 6 reset of March...
View ArticlePHP In a Mobile Ecosystem – Ivo Jansch
In this session, Ivo takes a look at PHP’s role in mobile technology and why he thinks PHP is a great tool for both mobile web and mobile apps. If you plan to do mobile development in the near future,...
View ArticleNoSQL Databases: What, Why and When – Lorenzo Alberton
NoSQL databases get a lot of press coverage, but there seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding them, as in which situations they work better than a Relational Database, and how to choose one over...
View ArticlePHP Performance by Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf takes a close look at WordPress and Facebook’s HipHop PHP compiler as examples in teaching a systematic approach to benchmarking, profiling, and optimizing web applications.
View ArticleRe-imagining CakePHP: The path to 2.0
An engaging presentation detailing the design and community driven decisions behind the development path of CakePHP 2.0. CakePHP has been popular and successful for over 5 years in the PHP community,...
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