Selling 12k tickets in 2 minutes
One of my little projects that I’ve been working on is an example where I wanted to build a system that would scale to be able selling 100k tickets in 5 minutes. I’m happy
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Added (PHP 5.3) job queuing to my WordPress instance
One of the things I liked on my old blog was the ability to have a Popular Posts section that was based off of Google Analytics. I had also like that I was using
Ideas of March
On Chris Shiflett’s blog he asks the question why we don’t blog more. For myself a lack of blogging usually means I’m working on code. I take what could be called the Pauline method
Zend Server 5.1 Web API
This weekend we soft launched the Zend Server 5.1 update. So soft, in fact, that I didn’t even know it was launched. But I did know it was coming. Most of the improvements were
What do you use for configuration management?
Another question for you. What do you for configuration management? Ini files? PHP Code? Yml? Do you have it as part of your deployment process? Hand-code in production? And, do you like your configuration
I’m curious about what you build
What do you spend your time on? What types of applications do you work on? I’m not so much curious about the frameworks you use, or your production environment. What you do, not what
What to make of TIOBE’s PHP results
A few weeks ago Twitter was a storm of activity around the TIOBE index. PHP had dropped two spots having been overtaken by Python and C++. Most of the activity was not from the
Migrated the blog… to WordPress
… to WordPress? Yep. I had written my blog from scratch, partially because I wanted to use it as a testing ground for various ideas and such. However, part of the problem of maintaining
New Zend Server Job Queue Library
This will probably be one of the last posts I do on the Zend Server Job Queue functionality. From this point on they will probably be less frequent, though I’m sure several posts will
I hate config files
I hate config files. There, I said it. Made a change to your configuration? Database? Temp location? Gotta redeploy your application. Even if you have an awesome deployment mechanism it just seems somehow wrong to have to redeploy your app to make a configuration change. From a security standpoint, I don’t particularly like having passwords and such being stored in a source repository. Or making it part of your build process. Or manually editing files in production.