For those of you that follow my blog reguarly, a few weeks ago I announced I was undertaking my <a href="/2013/05/open-source-challenge" target="_blank">Open Source Challenge</a>. Today marks the 32nd day of consecutive code pushes, so I successfully completed my goal! I've ...
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Today, I just created a <a href="https://github.com/etsy/statsd/" target="_blank">StatsD</a> PHP Library and released it on <a href="https://github.com/marcqualie/php-statsd" target="_blank">Github <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-link"></span></a>. Before you start with "but ...
For a while now I've been hearing a lot of people taking about the programming language Ruby. Not that it's anything new, it just seems to be a lot more popular in my circle of friends and my Twitter feed. Naturally, as a professional PHP developer, I should hate the idea of ...
Today, I decided to explore Cloudflare features in a bit more depth. I currently manage quite a few applications, both personal and business related on the platform. One feature which I'd never really looked into before was Page Rules. I'd read about them, but never actually ...
Today I finally released the beta version of my MongoDB compression library for PHP. There still a lot of work to be done, but it's stable enough to use as a drop replacement for standard usage such as saving and retrieving data. Not only have I released the source code, but ...
I recently just passed my probation period and got hired full time at Performance Horizon which means I get to work on awesome technology with a great team for the foreseeable future! Over the last 3 months I've met really interesting people, attended conferences and meetups, ...
This is a quick post explaning how to quickly install the CURL module on PHP5 in preperation for my next few posts. Below is the code to run from the command line. Please make all your packages are up to date and <a ...
Today I was experimenting with various caching techniques in PHP and Apache to try to speed up my site, while still keep all of my content real-time and efficient. I will be writing a full post on my experiment and my results later on tonight, but for now I just want to write ...
PHP, while known for it's simplicity and scalability, is an overall slow and memory consuming language. I my 5 years of programming, I've managed to build myself a fully custom and highly optimized set of libraries which I use in a lot of my projects. These libraries range ...
This is a quick tutorial on how to code basic pagination using a combination of PHP and MySQL. Pagination is basically splitting a list of content between multiple pages for easier navigation and less scrolling on a website. To start with you are going to need a few variables.
Did you know you can also create symlinks using PHP? Now when you have a lot of files you want to symlink in bulk, such as Apache project files which I described in a previous Blog post, you can simply create a php file to do all the work for you.
