Since a few days a certain operation in the webshop software we’ve written at work was extremely slow. Adding a product to the basket took forever, like 2 minutes. When adding a product to the basket it checks if there are any related products that should be added to the shopping basket as well. This is [...]

About 2,5 years ago at work we were still using PHP for new applications. With PHP being the language of choice I was looking at what MVC frameworks were available. At the time only Zend Framework (which was at version 1.5) seemed to be the only PHP5 framework. Aside from that it was a mature [...]

Yesterday PHP 5.2.14 has been released, together with PHP 5.3.3. I used to get excited about PHP updates, but no more. This is because of a number of disappointments I’ve talked about earlier. But that’s not really the reason of why not to get excited. So, why shouldn’t we be excited about PHP 5.2.14? The [...]

For over 3,5 years now I’ve been programming professionally in PHP. First in PHP4 and about half a year later we finally converted to PHP5. At first I was excited because I could use a lot of new features PHP5 offered such as proper OOP but also Zend Framework. I started using Zend Framework from [...]

So for a while now all PHP based applications at work were performing quite sloppy. Even though we’re using XCache as the opcode cache there was no difference in performance when XCache was enabled or disabled. Now, for small applications it didn’t really matter, but Zend Framework based applications were really slow. Even when all [...]

Which apparently is the slogan for launching Ubuntu 10.04. I think this is going to be a very nice LTS release. It’s too bad that they didn’t include Perl 5.12 in it, but that’s understandable as it just got released; although compiling your own is very easy. On the other hand, PHP 5.3 got in [...]