Paul Reinheimer's Blog: Memory usage in PHP
Paul Reinheimer has a reminder shown in his latest post about optimizing your scripts - don't forget the basics like unset. A colleague called me over today for some help with a memory usage issue in...
View ArticleMySQL Performance Blog: Sample datasets for benchmarking and testing
In a recent post to the MySQL Performance Blog, there's a pointer to a few resources you can use if you need some sample datasets to run your application against - everything from airline flight...
View ArticleFabien Potencier's Blog: The PHP Ternary Operator: Fast or not?
In a new post Fabien Potencier looks at the ternary operator in PHP and wonders which is faster - using it or not (well, sort of...) People like micro-optimizations. They are easy to understand, easy...
View ArticleMartin Sikora's Blog: Storing arrays using JSON, serialize and var_export
Martin Sikora was working on an application that used a large dataset (in an array) and found some interesting things in regards to PHP's resulting loading time and saving time in four different types...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Learning Loops
PHPmaster.com has a new introductory tutorial for those just starting out with PHP (or with programming really) talking about using looping structures for sets of data - for, while/do-while and...
View ArticleIBM developerWorks: Store datasets directly in shared memory with PHP
On the IBM developerWorks site today there's a new tutorial showing you how to store shared data directly to a shared memory space of your PHP application. Once created, and given proper permissions,...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Bulletproofing Database Interactions with PHPUnit's Database...
On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial showing you how to test your application's interface with the database using "bulletproof" PHPUnit testing. There's already a great article here that...
View ArticleJames Fuller: Use @dataProvider to reduce duplication and improve the...
Code duplication is a common problem for developers. It's easy to copy and paste code around your application, but you're asking for trouble. Unfortunately, this kind of problem also extends to unit...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: PINQ - querify your datasets - introduction
The SitePoint PHP blog has posted the first part of a new series they're releasing about querying your data with Pinq. It's a PHP-based query tool that provides a fluent interface for searching and...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: PINQ - Querify Your Datasets - Faceted Search
The SitePoint PHP blog has continued their series showing the use of the PINQ library for PHP (a PHP implementation of the LINQ tool). In part one they introduced the tool and showed how to it could...
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