Magazine Articles

Tuning Apache and PHP for Speed on Unix

Here is an extensive compilation of tips on how to optimise Apache on Linux and Unix for PHP and CGI programs. The tips can also be applied to Perl and Python.

Configuration Management

The mangement of software development projects with respect to issues such as multiple developers working on the same code at the same time, targeting multiple platforms, supporting multiple versions, and controlling the status of code.

The PHP coder's top 10 mistakes and problems

Seeing the number of problems and mistakes PHP coders encounter repeatedly I set out to make this list of the 10 most common problems and mistakes done by PHP coders.

Business Process Execution Language

BPEL for Web services, also known as BPELWS or BPEL4WS, is based upon XML standards. It is intended to provide a means to implement task-sharing in a distributed or grid computing environment both within and across multiple organizations. The BPEL acts as a "glue" between various Web services.

Job Costing Software - The Benefits

Job costing software lets you resume your role as project manager, not accountant. Manual methods of job costing simply cannot keep up with a project’s daily changes.

Aspect-oriented Software Development and PHP

Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is a methodology meant to implement new aspects in software component using external components, but without altering the code that implements the core functionality. The AOSD concept was applied originally by Java developers. They developed a compiler that implements the AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming, an implementation of AOSD) white box approach,

Job Costing Software - The Benefits

Job costing software lets you resume your role as project manager, not accountant! Manual methods of job costing simply cannot keep up with a project's daily changes.

PHP and XML, technical or cultural gap?

Classified as "the most popular Apache module" by E-Soft, PHP is one of the least frequently mentioned languages amongst the XML discussion lists. PHP4 brings many enhancements to PHP's object oriented features and should therefore allow a leap forward in the XML direction which PHP3 didn't allow.

PHP From an IT Manager's Perspective

In this article, Tobias Ratschiller (who runs http://phpwizard.net) explains what PHP is, what it can do, and where it stands compared to other programming and scripting languages.

Enterprise PHP

PHP is an Open Source language that is widely popular on the web. However because PHP so popular in shared hosting environments, many people have an impression that PHP is only for small scale web-sites. This is patently untrue, and PHP is in use in many large scale web sites such as Yahoo Finance and for the creation of large web applications such as IMP. This article is an attempt to readdress t
Previous ( 1 | 2)