Click to Play For years, Apache, which is currently utilised by more than 100 million active websites, has been the de facto web server over the likes of IIS, GWS, Nginx and Lighttpd. However, due to the fact that Apache requires more resources and its performance tends to decrease as the number of concurrent connection… read more

Click to Play Most content on web sites and web applications, such as pages, e-commerce products, blog entries, news articles and even job vacancies, comprise mostly of common attributes. By centralising this content at the Model and database level, extending upon a core set of tables for more diverse content types we can save development… read more

Click to Play Weve all read the textbooks and are using version control systems for our code, but our databases are left out in the cold. Every team has their own workaround, ranging from patch files to SQL snippets in the bugtracker, but none is really robust.There isnt a silver bullet solution, but this talk… read more

Click to Play Finding and fixing bugs is a major chunk of any developers time.This talk describes the basic rules for effective debugging in any language, but shows how the tools available in PHP can be used to find and fix even the most elusive error. Associated Slides