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MongoDB Cursors with PHP

MongoDB Cursors with PHP London, UK Tuesday, May 22nd 2012, 09:15 BST Recently I was asked to improve theMongoCursor::batchSizedocumentation. This began an indepth investigation in how the PHPdriverforMongoDBhandles pulling data that's been queried...

Interview with Joe Devon

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Sending Mail

Like every product, Natural Load Testing needs to send some mail, having written and re-written a bunch of different blocks of mail code over the years, I wanted to come up with something that would work now, and continue to serve us well into the future. Basic...

Zend Framework: CRUD

I think it took me (or us) a couple attempts to get thisright\u2014 let me introduce you to Zf_Crud, a CRUD controller for the Zend Framework. What's CRUD? CRUD is an acronym and stands for: Create Read Update Delete A general purpose for CRUD...

Use `env`

Weuse quite a few technologies to build our products, butGimme Baris still primarily a PHP app. To support these apps, we have a number of command-line scripts that handle maintenance tasks, cron jobs, data migration jobs, data processing workers, etc. These...

If Node.js Is So Hot, Then Where Is The Ecosystem?

I've recently built a product inNode JS, and it was a very positive experience (more on that in another blog post). I'm now looking around at what I need to do to package it all up for customers and entrepreneurs \u2013 hosting, developer meetups,...

Interview with Mage+ creator

[You may have heard about theMagento fork Mage+.] \xa0 Lee, just tell us: who are you and what are you doing? s9ymdb:651I'm a Magento technical architect, developer and contributor to Magento CE. I specialise in architecting and building large...

Composer Dependency Woes

I spent the better part of this afternoon trying to figure out why aComposerinstallation wasn't working andfinallyfigured out the problem\u2026it wasn't mine. First, a little context \u2013 I'm currently working on a testing presentation for...

Some throttling for PECL/mysqlnd_ms 1.4

Users of MySQL Replication sometimes throttle client requests to give slaves time to catch up to the master.PECL/mysqlnd_ms1.4, the current development version, features some throttling through the quality-of-service filter and global transaction identifier...

Sami: Yet another PHP API documentation generator

Today is my "let open source some of my private Github repositories" day, and more specifically, I'm releasing a bunch of code related to documentation. Earlier today, I've released the Sphinx extensionsI'm using to generate the Symfonydocumentation. And...