October 2012

With so many conferences, sporting events (Olympics) and general celebrations such as the Queen's Jubilee happening, it has been a rather hectic month. Take a break, download issue 7, Full Throttle, to get your monthly dose of PHP and web technology articles.  

Contents

  • Remember the first time you setup your website.  You quickly built it without any bugs, and everything looked exactly as you wanted.  As soon as you published your site you were swarmed with visitors...
  • You love making websites. You've created sites for yourself and your friends and maybe, even a paying client. You're having so much fun, you want to create websites as your day job, or maybe it is...
  • Welcome to the first article in my new column Scaling for Big Data. This column will be an exciting project, covering a variety of topics and techniques on scaling your database to meet the ever-...
  • Traffic laws are actually quite simple: You stop on a red light, honour the speed limit, and of course, you do not enter a one-way system from the opposite end, or park in a restricted area. Despite...
  • There’s much more to Haskell than just buzz-words like laziness and parallelism – which are completely deserved, by the way. Having pure computations defined as side-effect-free morphisms that take...
  • Modern web applications have to be fast and responsive. A nice user friendly design no longer suffices, as users become more and more impatient. Visitors compare the speed of your website with the...