From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Doing more at once

I’ve been doing a lot of work with curl_multi in PHP lately because it just makes sense to do as much work in parallel as possible (in most cases). I’ll be writing up my experiences with curl_multi later.
So, yesterday’s announcement by the Facebook development team about fql.multiquery couldn’t have come at a better time for [...]

Read the full article → June 17, 2009

Another way to cache

Obviously, I’m a big fan of the performance increases that can be achieved by using memcache. Another potential cache-based tool for enhancing your server-side PHP code is to use an opcode compiler and caching tool such as APC.
In addition to being a fantastic piece of technology by itself, APC also provides meaningful tuning options and [...]

Read the full article → June 11, 2009

Google Chrome for Linux

On Monday I downloaded Google’s Chrome browser for Ubuntu to test it out (against all warnings).
I’m happy to say that despite the missing features, this browser is absolutely amazing on Ubuntu. It’s lightning fast and very stable. I can’t browse to pages that require HTTP AUTH — but that’s the only thing I’ve found that [...]

Read the full article → June 10, 2009