Zend Developer Zone: Zend Weekly Summaries Issue #322
The latest weekly summary for the PHP mailing lists has been posted over on the Zend Developer Zone. This week, discussions included: Sandboxed semaphores Focus on *printf [continued] PHP 5.2.1 RC2...
View ArticlePaul Reinheimer's Blog: PHP BUG - err mm:core: failed to open semaphore file
Paul Reinheimer came across a small bug in a recent PHP 5.2.x release of the language - a debugging message left in by mistake. If you get an error when PHP launches along the lines of: "PHP Warning:...
View ArticleDave Marshall's Blog: Defending against Cache Stampedes
Dave Marshall has a new post to his blog showing one method for defending against cache stampedes from assaulting your caching servers and (possibly) bringing them down. I've recently had a problem...
View ArticleJonathan Hill: What Is Wrong With PHP's Semaphore Extension
In this recent post to his site Jonathan Hill takes a look at the PHP semaphore extension and talks about some of the issues he's had with it. He lists five different pain points he discovered when...
View ArticleJonathan Hill: Video: Multi-tasking in PHP (from Atlanta PHP)
Jonathan Hill has posted the video of his recent presentation at the Atlanta PHP User Group, "Multi-tasking in PHP". When it comes to multi-tasking and interacting with the operating system, PHP is no...
View ArticleSemaphoreapp.com: Continuous Integration & Deployment of PHP applications...
The Semaphore site (a testing and deployment service) has posted a tutorial showing how to set up a continuous integration/deployment using their service, GitHub and Heroku for a PHP application. The...
View ArticlePrzemek Sobstel: Preventing the Dogpile Effect
Przemek Sobstel has a recent post investigating an interesting theory in caching of any kind of application, not just PHP ones. He looks at the dogpile effect: when a cache expires and the database or...
View Article
