I suppose this part is just a rant, but if I see one more piece of undocumented, poorly spaced, procedural lump of PHP code, I’m going to scream. I realize that much of the PHP code out there was written for free by people who were writing code just to “get the job done”…I understand that. Unfortunatley, when that code is published, others rely on that same code for thier job. Sure it’s free and you have a disclaimer and…whatever. There are 1000 excuses, but only one cause: Poor software engineering practices. Continue reading »
Oct 03
Optimizing your database tables is an essential task and the performance results might amaze you. Optimization is essentially the process of defragmenting your database tables. Then you use variable-length database fields such as VARCHAR, BLOB, TEXT, or VARBINARY, defragmentation can occur when rows are deleted. Continue reading »
Much of what you find here will consist of my lectures and ramblings on the state of various technologies. Doesn't that sound like fun?! Hopefully you can find some useful information, experience, how-tos, code snippets, and whatever else...
