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  Database Shards and CakePHP

  08.03.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  As I’ve mentioned in this blog before, I spent 4 years working for an adult dating web site. One of the biggest problems we ran into was a bottleneck involving database replication lag. In a normal replication setup you have your application do writes to a master database and then those changes get replicated to [...]

• CakePHP, Chris' Brain, PHP

  What’s In Chris’ Brain: August 2007 Edition

  08.01.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  I have a post coming up later this week on some tips and tricks involving CakePHP best practices I’ve picked up (and had foisted upon me) but for now it’s brain dump time: Can the lazyweb tell me where I can find some cool online crime statistics? I was at a friend’s birthday party last [...]

• CakePHP, PHP

  Two-Headed Application Authentication in CakePHP 1.2

  07.28.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I've been working on an internal application for use at CDC that required me to have what I call "two-headed" authentication. By this I mean that there were two types of users in the system and while they could access some of the same controllers they could not always access the same actions. I know [...]

• Chris' Brain, PHP

  Protecting Your PHP Code

  07.20.07 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  WARNING: This post contains my own opinions and does not represent the views of my current employers In the July 2007 issue of php|architect magazine there is an article called "Shell Shock" that advocates using products from Zend and IonCube to encode and protect your PHP applications. Here are some of the nuggets of wisdom [...]

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  Opinionated Software, The Podcast

  07.17.07 | Permalink | Comments Off

  A while back I was contacted by Cal Evans over at the Zend Developer Zone to contribute to a new podcast he was starting up called PHP Abstract. Very cool idea, a small 5 to 7 minute podcast by PHP developers where they talk about a topic of interest to them (and hoepfully to you). [...]

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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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