I'll admit it, I'm doing performance-intensive code in PHP. I started my career writing demos in hand-coded assembler, but the need for development speed has pushed me towards using a scripting language. Part of making fast progress is reducing...

Photo by Elsie Esq.I had a chance to chat with Matt Mullenweg yesterday, and he focused on something I've been struggling with; building to last. It also got me thinking about plumbing.Joseph Bazalgette is one of my engineering heros. He built London's...

Photo by Beatrice MurchVirtually every web developer starts off using a relational database like MySQL. It's so easy to use joins and sorts to implement complex operations your service needs, pretty soon you end up with big chunks of application logic...

Photo by NNE Regular readers know that I've been both entranced and frustrated by Tokyo Tyrant. An elegantly minimal key/value database server with great performance, I've burnt days trying to get it running reliably with PHP.I'm extremely happy to say...

I don't know how things in Iran will turn out, but show your support for their struggle by following Mousavi on one of the few channels left for them, on Twitter:http://twitter.com/mousavi1388Seeing the photos and videos on there from Tehran is both...