All Posts Tagged With: "PHP"

Make It Scale

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last week I was invited along to speak at the Make IT Scale conference. It covered a wide range of scaling issues mainly very technical. I come from a Games Industry background and I wanted to get across how [...]

3Dec2008 | admin | 3 comments | Continued

Zend Framework powers fav.or.it

Today we finally launched fav.or.it. For those who have not been following our exploits for long we have been developing using Zend Framework on PHP, in fact we started using it at around version 0.6 and have worked through the problems as it has grown and evolved.
We have had our issues with performance as [...]

17Jun2008 | Nick Halstead | 54 comments | Continued

Tweetmeme - building stuff fast in PHP

I launched a little project today - tweetmeme it is written in PHP (of course!). What is it? It tracks the public timeline from twitter and picks up any links that get posted. It then follows each link to find final destination and then categorizes the content into blogs / video / images / audio.
This [...]

28Jan2008 | Nick Halstead | 12 comments | Continued