Kansas City's PHP User Group

PHP : How do you Time and Profile your code?

Posted by dholmes on 2008/6/21 16:04:02 (276 reads)

In July, I am planning to do a presentation on some ways to time and profile your code. Rather than this being a "what Dan found on Google" talk, what are some of the tools or techniques you use to find the trouble spots in your code?

Add your ideas to the comments and I'll do what I can to fold them into the presentation.

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PHP : Does anyone really use PHP anymore?

Posted by dholmes on 2008/5/26 15:58:46 (326 reads)

I was at training this week, and got into a discussion with an ASP developer in the break room. He ended up asking me: "Does anyone really use PHP anymore?" Naturally, I have him a resounding "Of Course!" But, other than some local sites I couldn't tell him for sure who anymore.

Then today, my inbox had a little gift from Zend. They have provided a list of case studies, including one on Fox Interactive's IGN sites who have recently rolled out Grand Theft Auto 'Hood, Super Smash Bros World, and Voodoo Extreme--all of which are using the Zend Framework and PHP 5.

You can read more about it (including the full whitepaper) and other case studies at: http://framework.zend.com/whyzf/casestudies#fox

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Tutorials and News : OpenBSD + Apache + MySQL + PHP (OAMP?)

Posted by ndunker on 2008/1/20 21:22:33 (770 reads)

Here's a quick little article I threw together for getting Apache/MySQL/PHP working nicely on OpenBSD. You know, for all 4 of you who use OpenBSD.

Sysadmin Sunday: OpenBSD, Apache, MySQL and PHP

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Affiliates : Want to review a book?

Posted by dholmes on 2008/1/7 8:40:21 (775 reads)

A Press is looking for new voices to review two of their new PHP books. They are looking for reviewers for:

http://apress.com/book/view/1590599063

http://apress.com/book/view/1590599098

Use the site's Contact Us link if you are interested, and we can figure out a way to get you the details.

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Affiliates : Kansas City Area's BSD User Group

Posted by dholmes on 2008/1/2 7:21:08 (761 reads)

Just wanted to let you all know that kcpug's own Noah Dunker is helping get yet another user group off the ground--this time it's for BSD!

Their first meeting is on January 9th, at the Plaza Library. It is intended to drum up interest, determine a permanent meeting time and location, and allow participants to experience a little *BSD.

If you are interested in any of the *BSD operating systems (desktop*, Open*, Free*, Net*) make sure you check them out.

http://www.kcbug.org/