Lately I’ve been fortunate to conduct an array of load tests using very large numbers and I believe I’ve stumbled upon something interesting within the Load/Performance testing community. Or rather something I might not understand yet…that’s also possible. A standardized way to load test. Let’s take an example. If I want to load test (not
Monday through Thursday what a ride. Yes I did miss some of the keynote speaker and yes I snagged a lunch which didnt belong to me. Sorry Sorry…ugh 🙂 Anyways ZendCon was awesome! I’m not sure why this event does not have more participants but I have to say that I greatly enjoyed it. Thumbs
Google I_O_Talk_Speed_TracerAttended my first Google I/O this year and truth be told I wasnt sure what to expect. My goal was to learn a bit more of Architecture, performance, and HTM 5. Looking back at day 1, I came away feeling good that I actually made it to the event given that I felt like
I started to get the HTML5 itch a few weeks ago so I started to look around the web to feed my appetite for all things HTML 5. Turns out info is pretty hard to come by. Not sure when your reading this but its been tough to find adequate examples of what IS and
This weekend, I got caught up with a few things at home specifically my initial attempts at benchmarking Zend Framework (ZF). Ive heard some rumbbling about its performance compared to other PHP frameworks so I had to take a look. This week was THAT! week lol. I sat down on Saturday and using my personal
About 2 months ago I sat in on a PHP performance session at work taught by non other than Rasmus Lerdof. Aside from creating PHP he had some really neat stuff to talk about concerning performance. Most of the presentation came from the php.net site, talks.php.net. Take a look at the talks when you have
A few people we’re having issues installing Zend_Tool on Windows, hell I was having trouble myself since all of the tutorials out there are either Macs or Red Hat based. So dont feel bad if your reading this :-). I thought i would take some time and create a tutorial, from the ground up and
Last week ZF 1.8 was released and this weekend I spent the better part of it looking through the documentation and over a few of the items released within this package. A few standouts include: Zend_Tool Zend_Tag The Cloud computing components For more information heres the complete list of features released. I also had a
Work has been overwhelming lately and frustrating but there was an interesting question asked by one of the developers at work. Can the Zend Framework run without the .htaccess file? The answer, Yes. Why do we need the .htaccess file First off why is the .htaccess file required in the first place by Zend Framework?Â
With the release of the new Zend Framework 1.7.3 a few nuggets were released. One of those nuggets was the extension support for JQuery UI Widgets. Featuring Dialog, Tabs, and Date Selection widgets among other bug fixes. (A full list of updated Zend 1.7.3 release notes can be seen here) With the release I started
