Archive for October, 2005
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
San Francisco downtown
San Francisco downtown
Originally uploaded by Nuno Loureiro.
View from coit tower
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
Zend Certification
Bruno and I took the Zend Certification exam here at the conference and I’m glad to announce that we both passed and we’re both ZCE now…
Here’s my certification authentication.
The exam had some tricky questions and it covers pretty much all of the aspects of PHP but I can’t say it was difficult.
For the […]
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
PHP and Unicode
PHP and Unicode
Andi Gutmans from Zend, Andrei Zmievski from Yahoo!
- Definitions
. Character Encoding Form: representation of a character set using a number of integer codes (code values)
- Multi-i18n-what?
. Dealing with multiple encodings is a pain
. Different algorithms, conversion, detection, validation, processing… understanding
. Dealing with multiple languages is a pain too
. But cannot be avoided in […]
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
Techniques for Building Enterprise PHP Applications
Techniques for Building Enterprise PHP Applications
by Chuck Hagenbuch, John Coggeshall, Rock Mutchler from Zend
Problem: client’s site was slow
Resolutions:
- Profile site lloking for slow pages/functions in current system
. Patch this bottle necks with a faster solution:
for example caching dynamic content with zend platform or fixing poorly written code
- Identify small changes that causae large effect on […]
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
PHP Data Objects
PDO by Wes Furlong
Ships with PHP 5.1
-The PDO Solution:
. Move PHP specific stuff into one extension
. Database specific stuff (only) in their own extensions
. Data access abstraction, not database abstraction
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Object Caching for high-performance, scalable web applications
Object Caching for high-performance, scalable web applications
by Johann Schleier-Smith, CTO, Tagged LLC
corp.tagged.com/obj-cache-zip
- load balancer
- ZP (30 PHP servers)
- memcached (livejournal) (4 servers) (hash based on keys to decide the storage server)
. Oracle 10g RAC
- Low level cache architecture
. Object serialization
. Basic cache operations
- SET($key, $value, [$lifetime])
- GET($key)
- DELETE($key)
- GETANDWAIT($key)
. Advice: pick something
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Service Data Objects
Service Data Objects by Graham Charters
Service Data Objects (SDOs) enable PHP applications to work with data from different sources (like a database query, an XML file, and a spreadsheet) using a single interface.
- Data Access Services
. Now we have a data structure we need some way to get data in and out of it..
. SDO […]
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
PHP Extension Development
* Creating PHP5 extensions
. PHP5 extensions are the same as in PHP4
. ext_skel generates the basic skeleton
- Build PHP Extensions
src/php5/ext$ ./ext_skel –extname=util
1 $cd ..
2 $ vi ext/util/config.m4
3 $ ./buildconf –force
4 $ ./configure –with-util
5 $ make
(cont…)
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
XML, Web Services & PHP
Today I’ll attend two tutorials: XML, Web Services & PHP and PHP Extension Development.
Here are the some notes taken on the XML, Web Services & PHP Tutorial.
Speaker: Christian Wenz-
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Zend & PHP Conference
After a long trip and a lot of flight changes, finally we arrived at Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco, where the Zend & PHP Expo is going to happen. For the next days I’ll post some notes about the Tutorials and Sessions.
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