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In the days since I began programming in PHP the web has come a long way. With the 5.3 release of PHP, the OOP side of things are finally getting a much needed polish. In the past year there's been a steady rise in the usage of Ruby on Rails for web development as programmers are discovering that ...more»
After working on the migration this week and moving CitySquares.com over to a new environment we ended the week with a load test from Soasta. Starting at several hundred concurrent users to a cap of 2500 simulated users on at once we were able to really pick apart the infrastructure. Couple this with our own internal testing and ...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»
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