Or, “The evilest underscore: a tale of woe.” Did you know that the underscore character ( _ ) is technically not valid for domain names or subdomains? If you’re like me, you didn’t read RFC 1034 and RFC 1035 before deciding on subdomain names for your test servers. The insidious thing is that all appears …
Because writing articles is typically such a one-way medium, I often forget that all the energy I have poured into illustrating programming concepts in PHP actually ends up helping people. Got this nice note in my inbox today: I was looking for a good tutorial on recursion for displaying directory subtrees and this was a …
I just finished writing my article for the next issue of PHP Magazine, and as promised, I go into greater detail about optimizing, staticizing, and caching PHP to deliver high performance in heavy traffic. In the section on optimizing source code, I cite the three major areas where I have most commonly seen bottlenecks:
Issue 04.05 of PHP Magazine just hit newsstands all over Europe with my article about Farming PHP on the cover. My preview of the subject generated considerable interest from the community, making me realize what an important and far-reaching topic this really is. If you are serious about running PHP in high-traffic, business-critical situations, I …
Browsing through the list of sponsors for Google’s summer of code, I noticed that while ventures written in PHP like Mambo showed up, there was no representation at all from Pear, Pecl, or PHP itself. The Perl Foundation, by contrast, had a number of interesting project ideas they were willing to sponsor. This got me …
With the upcoming release of PHP 5.1 beta, I am hoping that the PHP 5 revolution I was promised will finally become more of a reality. The truth is that adoption of PHP 5 (among anyone besides the hardcore PHP geek) seems to be very slow. Perhaps companies are shying away from the .0 release …
