February 2006

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  Ruby On Rails At The High-Volume Level

  02.24.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Almost after I wrote my last entry I remembered a site that takes huge amounts of traffic that was built with Rails. The Penny Arcade online comic.

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  Gimme That PHP Lovin’

  02.21.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Yes. I admit it. I like PHP. I’ve been working exclusively in PHP for so long writing PHP code has become second nature to me. When I use other languages I ask myself how I would do this in PHP, then look for the equivalent in whatever language I’m using, whether it be Perl or [...]

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  Graphing Results

  02.14.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  As I’ve been pecking away at my article for php|architect (up to 1700 words now) I realized I need to add a section about user tracking for your application. Here at work I’ve been introduced to a powerfull tool called Cacti, which uses something called RRDTool in order to generate nice graphs of, well, just [...]

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  Coming To A Magazine Near You…

  02.09.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I’m going to be writing an feature-length article for php|architect Magazine on the topic of scaling PHP applications. It will be more targeted at the beginner/intermediate PHP developer, as I’ms ure the folks at places like Yahoo would have something to say about how to scale PHP stuff. I’m looking forward to the experience. I’ve [...]

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Facebook should've be written in unicornSchemaLang, because everyone *knows* that PHP is no good for anything, right?

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