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PHP 5.3 gets ActiveRecord!
A quick search to find an implementation of active record for php on google is discouraging when one considers the state of ActiveRecord for Ruby on Rails. The reader will notice that the top results are from very old posts and the rest of the results preview minimial implementations. Of course, eventually, PHP ...more»
Quality GIS data sometimes comes with a lot more precision than what is usable for Google Maps (or other mapping software). The problem lies in the number of points representing a polygon that you want to overlay. A county representation for a state might include 100,000 points that is not usable without some form of reduction. Luckily there is an ...more»
I have been working a lot of with PHP and GIS consulting for CitySquares and the History Engine. I found searching for everything I needed to do basic processing & Google Integration tedious and painful. So here is a collection of common functions that helped me get through the massaging of the data and ready for integration.
pnPoly ...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»
Last week I wrote an article about extending my framework (Pho framework courtsey of Kien La) to DRY your code and to be more similar to Rails.
Today, I would like to present to you another class that will help extend your framework in similar fashion.
The Flash
If you aren't familiar with the way RoR uses "flash" messaging, you can take a ...more»
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