Early Performance Benchmarking is a Disease

Benchmarking and performance concerns should be one of the last things you address while building your application, but it seems as though, in the PHP community especially, it’s often one of the first things novice developers think about. Any PHP developer who’s been in the community for a while has heard preposterous claims like “use [...]

Presentation Slides From Tulsa TechFest 2008

Well Tulsa TechFest is over, and it was a pretty good conference overall. Here are the slides of my presentations at the conference for those who are interested. I have voice recordings of both my presentations too, but unfortunately the digital recorder I bought has no way of directly accessing the files stored in memory [...]

Reading a FeedBurner Feed with PHP and cURL

Just thought I’d post a quick HOW-TO article on how to get the contents of a FeedBurner feed with PHP, because it’s something I was attempting to do last night that really annoyed me.  Since I started this blog here, I decided to narrow another website of mine – czaries.net – to just distribute some [...]

Speaking at TulsaTechFest 2008

After anxiously awaiting a response from David Walker, the TulsaTechFest conference Director about an open speaking spot, I just about fell out of my chair today when I finally got the email with a confirmation that I was going to be presenting.  I am very excited about this amazing opportunity, and have already begun putting [...]

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