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Creating a new web application in a development environment looks always the same. Download source code, create a new virtual host and add an entry to the etc/host file. It doesn’t take a great amount...
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Arduino changed the word. Everybody can make an astonishing project without a degree in electronic. If you are a programmer soon or later you will get an idea of connecting it to a computer. If you are...
View ArticleMulti threaded Socket Server in PHP with fork
When you create your first socket server you will quickly realise that one thread is not enough. In a single thread architecture a server can’t handle more then one connection at the time. It’s...
View ArticleCreating a Chat server in PHP with sockets, forks and pipes
In my previous post I showed how to create a multi process socket server in PHP with pcntl_fork. This time I’m going to extend this example and write a chat server. Chat is far more challenging because...
View ArticleBenchmarking Amazon EC2 instance for a Web Server
For the last few days I’ve been testing Amazon web services (AWS). I’m looking for a reliable and scalable hosting provider to host Gloople e-commerce platform. Feature wise AWS is amazing. It offers...
View ArticleBoost WordPress performance with Varnish Cache
Lets face it, WordPress is slow. With every request it has to go though thousands lines of code and multiple SQL queries to render a page. Very popular configuration for a WordPress site is Apache,...
View ArticleBeginners guide to Amazon Cloud
Everybody heard about Amazon Cloud. It has been around for a good few years. Despite its popularity not everybody had a chance to try it. Amazon tries it best to get more people on board by offering...
View ArticleApache2 vs Nginx for PHP application
Time is money. This somewhat shallow and overused saying fits perfectly well into any on-line business. Users are impatient and every millisecond brings them closer to leaving your website. If you’ve...
View ArticlePainless guide to Solr Cloud configuration
“Cloud” become very ambiguous term and it can mean virtually anything those days. If you are not familiar with Solr Cloud think about it as one logical service hosted on multiple servers. Distributed...
View ArticleAutomated backups to Google Drive with PHP API
Where do you keep backups? I guess that depends on what do you backup. You might have a very clever answer for a business critical data but what about less important content? The best example would be...
View ArticleHacking PHP syntax
Have you ever though how to extend the core of PHP? What does it take to create a new keyword or even design a whole new syntax? If you have some basic knowledge about C you shouldn’t have any problem...
View ArticleIntegrating Varnish Cache with a PHP application
Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator. It stands in front of a web server and can cache any type of data. It stores data in memory and can speed up your application by a factor of 300-1000x...
View ArticleReading PHP session from Varnish Cache
In my previous post I showed how to integrate Varnish Cache with a PHP application. The example can solve various simple problems but it might not be enough for a complex software. A good example is a...
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