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Curvette

July 15th, 2009 Techno Wizkid No comments

Curvette. Photo taken and uploaded to Flickr by cmiper

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Lost Pond – Montana De Oro Beach

July 15th, 2009 Techno Wizkid No comments

Lost Pond – Montana De Oro Beach. Photo taken and uploaded to Flickr by kevin mcneal

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And so it began

July 15th, 2009 Techno Wizkid No comments

And so it began. Photo taken and uploaded to Flickr by Zeb Andrews

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Weblogtoolscollection.com: Is WordPress A Thankless Community?

July 15th, 2009 php No comments

On the Weblogtoolscollection.com site there’s an interesting post talking about something that should concern members of (or those considering becoming members of) the WordPress community – it seems that there’s not a lot of love to go around.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. Many of the plugin authors I have spoken with throughout the community tell me that very rarely do they ever get a donation let alone a Thank You for releasing their work to the public. Based on the plugin authors feedback, end users demand more features, demand better support, and in the end, have this feeling of entitlement even if the plugin is available without a price tag.

Thankfully, not everyone in the community is this way, but there’s apparently enough of it to cause a problem. They suggest just a few simple ways you can do your part and let the author of your favorite plugin know you appreciate them and the hard work they’ve put in. It doesn’t even have to be donation, just a nice “thank you” is sometimes enough.

Be sure to read the comments for some great discussion on the matter.

Teknoid’s Blog: A deeper look at working with CakePHP shells

July 15th, 2009 php No comments

On his blog recently teknoid has posted a deeper look at using shells for the CakePHP framework that allow you to quickly make your application usable from the command line.

Why is that a good thing or what is it generally used for? Well, probably the #1 reason to write a shell is to allow certain aspects of your application to be executed by cron (behind the scenes), rather than through human intervention or web interface. [...] The other option is, of course, to be able to automate some mundane tasks… just take a look at the power of “bake”.

He’s broken things up into a few different categories – a general look at what the shells are and how they can be used, some of the more handy shell methods included by default, how to load in models to get access to your data and, finally, how to call a method from one of your classes.

PHP 10.0 Blog: More on PHP performance

July 14th, 2009 php No comments

In this new post on the PHP 10.0 blog, Stas looks at performance in PHP applications as his own response to the Google suggestions they recently released.

So here are my thoughts about what would be good for the beginner to consider when he starts with PHP performance optimizations. Note that I do not say it’s the only thing you should do ‘” there are a bunch of articles, talks, blogs, etc. about PHP performance and many of them contain very good advice and go into much more details than I intend to go into.

Suggestions on his list include:

Bytecode cache
Profiling
Don’t try to outsmart the engine
Leverage the extensions
Use php.ini-production as a start

Noupe.com: Ten Simple Rules for Choosing the Perfect CMS + Excellent Options

July 14th, 2009 php No comments

Noupe.com has a few suggestions for you when you go to pick out your next content management system with ten guidelines that can help:

The content management system you choose can really make a huge difference in how much time you (or your clients) spend keeping a site updated and maintained. There’s a huge variety out there-some estimates put the number at around 1700 different options. Some are great…some, not so much.

Among the suggestions are things like: