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Optimization
- Handling Static ContentAs of a few weeks ago my website used PHP to route static assets. That is, every time a request hit my server …
- Optimizing RegexMany people avoid using regex in their application because of speed issues. When you’re developing a …
- Keeping Things Simple with SculpinEarlier this week I had the pleasure of learning about Sculpin, a sweet PHP tool, from Ben Benesh at the local …
- Client vs Server AnalyticsSite analytics is an important tool for web developers and stakeholders alike. Knowing where visitors are …
- Resizing Images with PHPOf all the memory-intensive processes that you can do with PHP image resizing is one of the most abused. It …
- Midwest PHP Conference 2013I haven’t been too many conferences. DealerFire only pushed vendor conferences, fancy get-togethers in …
- Web Crawlers are DifficultIn my last post I explained what a web crawler was and some of the basic steps that someone could break up the …
- Building a Web CrawlerA web crawler is a script that goes out and crawls the web. Pretty surprising, eh? There are many crawlers out …
- A Year of Hits and SpidersRight around this time last year I set up a simple hit logger on my server. Nothing complex, just a dump of …
- Blog Updates: It's Responsive!There’s been a lot of changes to a few of my websites lately, including this blog. Inspired by the whole …