PHP Appalachia 2008 came to a close yesterday, concluding four days of fun and friends. We had great presentations by some of the best names in PHP, including Ben Ramsey, Brian DeShong, Matthew Turland, and lots of others. The evening ended with a RambleCast recording, and a viewing of The Goonies, a low-key end to [...]

It’s early on Day 3 of PHP Appalachia, and we’re having a wonderful time. The hot tub fun has just ended, and most people are straggling off to bed.

Hey you…yeah you PHP developer, stop doing this:

Even though the SVN extension for PHP is still in beta, the team has done a fantastic job with this PECL package. They’ve captured the most common SVN functions, put them into the package, and provided an easy way to view, manage, and control a Subversion repository right from PHP.

This past week I had to deal with a new concept: a client site that failed due to excessive load. Most of the week was spent optimizing the site by doing the critical components: installing APC, ensuring that our caching (Akamai) was satisfactory and properly configured, and making performance improvements.