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Friday, 23 January 2009Boost performance with parallel processing
In the past couple of weeks I had to implement parallel processing with PHP twice. Since it was very effective I thought I'd share it with you all.
The idea of parallel processing is when you take an atomic transaction or operation called a 'process' and run a couple of those at the same time. Many programming languages support this via threading or forking. Since most computers have multi core CPU's and can handle multiple processes at the same time your application can benefit from having multiple transactions running at once. Ga door met lezen van "Boost performance with parallel processing" Tuesday, 12 August 2008The definition of evil
Recently a colleague stated that in theory, caching could be considered 'evil'.
Now 'evil' is a very broad term which is used a lot in the IT community, but what does it really mean when we're talking about technical solutions? I asked around, but couldn't find a clear cut definition, so I went searching... Ga door met lezen van "The definition of evil"
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Tags voor deze bijdrage: best practices, browser, caching, development, evil, optimization, performance, scalability
Friday, 2 May 2008The Power of Refactoring"Code refactoring is any change to a computer program's code that improves its readability or simplifies its structure without changing its results." - Wikipedia I've met quite a bunch of developers that felt refactoring was a waste of time. "Why would you write code only to change the code at a later point? Why not just write the code perfectly in the first place?" or "You're writing code for the same functionality over and over again, isn't that a waste of time?" I hope to prove to you that there is much power in refactoring, but with power comes responsibility. Ga door met lezen van "The Power of Refactoring"
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