Change is coming
Which apparently is the slogan for launching Ubuntu 10.04. I think this is going to be a very nice LTS release. It’s too bad that they didn’t include Perl 5.12 in it, but that’s understandable as it...
View ArticleCheck your XCache settings!
So for a while now all PHP based applications at work were performing quite sloppy. Even though we’re using XCache as the opcode cache there was no difference in performance when XCache was enabled or...
View ArticleHow a programming language influences your mood
For over 3,5 years now I’ve been programming professionally in PHP. First in PHP4 and about half a year later we finally converted to PHP5. At first I was excited because I could use a lot of new...
View ArticlePHP 5.2.14 released but don’t get excited yet
Yesterday PHP 5.2.14 has been released, together with PHP 5.3.3. I used to get excited about PHP updates, but no more. This is because of a number of disappointments I’ve talked about earlier. But...
View ArticleChoosing Zend Framework was a mistake
About 2,5 years ago at work we were still using PHP for new applications. With PHP being the language of choice I was looking at what MVC frameworks were available. At the time only Zend Framework...
View ArticlePHP’s switch-statement bit me in the ass
Since a few days a certain operation in the webshop software we’ve written at work was extremely slow. Adding a product to the basket took forever, like 2 minutes. When adding a product to the basket...
View ArticleI’m now a freelance developer
To my surprise I hadn’t even announced here that I have recently started freelancing! As of August the 1st I now operate under the name Kras IT and am available as a freelance developer. Since it’s now...
View ArticlePropel ORM for PHP
For the last couple of weeks I’ve have been working with Propel ORM for PHP and have really enjoyed using it. Coming from Perl I’m spoiled because it has DBIx::Class which is my ORM by choice and makes...
View ArticleSymfony 2 cheatsheet
A cool Symfony 2 website I ran in today is the Symfony 2 Cheatsheet by David Pérez. It sure would’ve been nice if I had this one around when I just started out with the Symfony 2 project I’m working on...
View ArticleConvert HTML to PDF with HTML2PDF Web Service
Recently I launched my new product HTML2PDF Web Service — a web service for converting HTML to PDF. In this post I’d like to talk about HTML2PDF Web Service. Why to choose it, how to use it and what...
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