As you build out your application, scalability will start become an issue. You will find yourself making queries to the database every page load cost you precious cpu and load time. The trick is to cache frequently used data so that a database query is not necessary, reducing the overhead on your server.
Choosing the right revision control system can make or break your development flow. I found this out the hard way after SVN brought our source migration process to a crawl. We will walk through the problems that most have with SVN and the migration process from SVN to Git.
Active Record can be a very useful tool in your developer arsenal. It allows you to code faster and helps ensure your queries execute without security issues.
After several days of frustrating Google queries and support forums, I found out what was causing the iSight on my 2008 Macbook Pro to stay hidden from the computer.
When using a Multi-Environment setup for your development process it is essential to have adequate protection from outside prying eyes, but also allow people to access your public/testing sites. This .htaccess code allows you to do that.
MVC has defiantly changed the way applications are written over the past few years. It is more organized and developer-friendly, but it comes with a bit of a learning curve. I will cover what models are and how I use them to speed up my application development.
Nambu is a great new twitter client out for the Mac and iPhone Platforms. It includes the saved searches, tr.im / pic.im integration, and the ability to group your friends. Its a pretty nice app if you have not tried it yet.
Mozenda is a very powerful data scraping service. If you have ever found yourself writing scripts or manually copying and pasting data from one website to another then mozenda is for you. They have a very nice, full featured REST API which will be the focus of this article.
Envato recently released an API for thier various Marketplaces. I have taken the various methods of interacting with this data and compiled it into one, easy to use codeigniter library. It can also be used as a standalone php class if you wish. The class is currently PHP5 and requires you have json_encode, json_decode, and curl functions available.
Hello Everyone!
My name is Tom Schlick and I’m a freelance web developer / applications engineer for a company called MyGov365. I absolutely love creating kick ass web applications with php. Lately I’ve been hooked on CodeIgniter, jQuery, and the 960.gs frameworks as they make my job a hell of a lot easier.
