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Well its been a few weeks since my last posting here and there is certainly a good reason for that. Every once in a while I just need to completely unplug from technology. So it only made sense for me to go away on vacation to the middle of no where up in Maine's great north woods for a couple ...more»
Tags: apache, ec2, free, HAProxy, high availability, Load Balancing, open source, reliability, security
In my last post I mentioned the numerous technologies which were on tap for the upcoming version of CitySquares. This installment will continue to define an overview of the underlying architecture and begin to dig a little deeper into the actual implementation of the technologies. The idea and focus of this new architecture is aimed at creating a much more ...more»
This will be the first post in a multi-part series, each of the following installations will detail the technologies and implementations of the upcoming CitySquares revision. I hope to cover the entire page generation process, starting with the user's first request to the resulting dynamically generated HTML, CSS, JS, etc. Before I dive too deep into the technical aspect of ...more»
I have come to the conclusion that I should be cataloging my work, thoughts, theories and activities for others to read and learn from my experiences as a web engineer. Let me begin by mentioning I work at a company called CitySquares and for the last year I have been working diligently on the current CitySquares site.
This has been a ...more»
Tags: CMS, codability, Drupal, Framework, horizontal architecture, maintainability, oop, ORM, PHP, scalability, smarty, Symfony