Looking got an easy simple explanation of what Varnish Cache is, and how you it can work for you? This is a good starter for anyone looking to optimize improve the performance of your service,server, or site.
The second in the Backbone.js model and view walkthrough series. A little more detail in this tutorial about how Basic Auth tokens and custom http headers are sent to the RoR backend
This example introduces two new Model actions (swap and delete), illustrating how such actions can be handled within a Model’s View.
This is an extension of the example found here: http://arturadib.com/hello-backbonejs/docs/5.html
HTML5 is growing in popularity, and one of the best things about it is the video capabilities. There are a slew of benefits in contrast to flash (which I won’t get into now) and its good to see some great projects like VideoJS. This is a simple and easy to use JavaScript library that you can easily embed and customize to get a lightweight alternative to bulky, complicated flash that may not display on all mobile devices.
MongoDB — from “”humongous”" — is an open source, non-relational, document-oriented database. Trading off a few traditional features of databases (notably joins and transactions) in order to achieve much better performance, MongoDB is fast, scalable, and designed for web development.
Out of the many documentation tools out there, one of the easier is PHPDoctor.
Its dead-simple to get started and i think i may do a quick video but again it is another reason why as a developer you should get firmiliar with the command line, as you can generate web viewable documentation for you entire system or application with a single command.
php phpdoc.php myconfig.ini
It is undeniable that there is a laissez-faire attitude among developers when it comes to code. Coming from a Java background where everything is fairly tightly defined in terms of best practices and how things should be done, PHP is almost the opposite.
This is appealing at first, as it makes learning the language easy, as well as making PHP do what you want with relative ease when compared to a .NET or Java solution.
However, a major drawback is that it soon becomes the Wild Wild West of coding Continue reading
