Blog Feed: Derivante

Extensible PHP Caching Library

Published on 2010-04-23 12:31:43

Everyone has probably already seen every caching class there ever was and ever will be. However, when I was searching for a class that could easily be switched from one data store to the next I couldn't find a thing. Every caching class I seemed to c > read more

ActiveRecord and Zend_Paginator_Adapter_Interface

Published on 2009-10-29 09:29:07

Zend has a lot of tools to help speed up the application development process.  One such tool I found useful, was Paginator.   I am using php-activerecord in my project using Zend_Framework as the backend, to tie the two together is very simple.  > read more

PHP Content Rating / Confidence

Published on 2009-09-01 16:15:51

For those web masters dealing with user feedback looking to weight content finding the right algorithm can be challenging. From experience, there is going to be no out of the box solution since each site and the requirements will be unique. Getting s > read more

PHP Google Analytics API

Published on 2009-07-08 10:19:50

GAPI 1.3 released this past month. First, read the Google Analytics Data API Reference and then read up on dimensions, metrics, and valid combinations of the two.  The quotas apply to a single web property, so each analytics profile (site1, site2, e > read more

SOLR Filtering Performance Increase

Published on 2009-06-23 10:55:44

A couple months ago I wrote about the terrible performance and a work around for SOLR / Lucene search engine. I discovered that performance would drop off a cliff while using filter queries to narrow search results for search queries on common terms > read more

PHP Rapid Application Development with ZF1.8 and AR

Published on 2009-05-21 14:02:42

In the days since I began programming in PHP the web has come a long way. With the 5.3 release of PHP, the OOP side of things are finally getting a much needed polish. In the past year there's been a steady rise in the usage of Ruby on Rails for web > read more

PHP ActiveRecord Available for Beta Testing

Published on 2009-05-19 20:09:27

We've been working hard to get this ready for people to start poking around in and we're happy to announce that it's now ready for public beta testing! You can grab it from http://github.com/kla/php-activerecord/. Play with it... break it... and give > read more

PHP ActiveRecord with PHP 5.3

Published on 2009-05-13 23:21:34

Update! Find the latest here. PHP 5.3 gets ActiveRecord! A quick search to find an implementation of active record for php on google is discouraging when one considers the state of ActiveRecord for Ruby on Rails. The reader will notice that the top r > read more

SOLR Performance Benchmarks – Single vs. Multi-core Index Shards

Published on 2009-05-05 17:23:13

Single vs. multi-core sharded index. Which one is the right one? There is not a whole lot of information out there, especially when it comes to hard numbers and comparisons. There are a couple reasons for this. The first one that comes to mind is the > read more

100x Increase in SOLR Performance and Throughput

Published on 2009-04-27 15:28:27

Is your SOLR installation running slower than you think it should? Performance, throughput and scalability not what you are expecting or hoping? Do you constantly see that others have much higher SOLR query performance and scalability than you do? Al > read more