I was bored last night so I thought I’d enhance one of my applications with a little bit of Queueing. (And for the record both Queueing and Queuing are valid spellings depending on your locale) The concept is fairly straight forward. Normally when a web application runs, it runs in a linear pattern. It starts, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘performance’
Typecasting with double-not (!!) vs. (bool)
June 1st, 2010
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I was asked a strange question today. “What’s return !! $row; do?” And I had never really been witness to the syntax of the double-not ‘!!’ because really, to me, it’s a bit strange and contradictory for the coding styles I’m used to. So I looked it up a bit more to see if it [...]
A Pinch of Performance (Apache Tuning)
March 31st, 2010
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If you’re using rewrite rules and other special configuration directives on your website, like any Zend Framework site does, you might want to consider the following: Avoiding .htaccess and ‘AllowOverride [not none]‘ on large websites.
