August 2007
php|tek Slides - Professional PHP
by 1 other * Writing Maintainable PHP Code
* Dependency Injection
* Exceptional PHP
Unmaintainable
The talk covers many different aspects in API design and contains examples of good practice and common mistakes. Many of the principles and guidelines discussed aren’t new, but you rarely see so many of them summarized.
Target Practice - A Workshop in Tuning MySQL Queries - Jay Pipes
(via)I gave a tutorial at OSCON last week on tuning MySQL queries, the EXPLAIN statement, the optimizer, and benchmarking. I've gone ahead and put the tutorial materials online now:
MySQL Performance Blog » Landscape of Transactional Storage Engines for MySQL
(via)talks about current state behavior and performance properties of Innodb, Falcon, PBXT and SolidDB Storage Engines
May 2007
Premature Optimization » Zend_Search_Lucene talk slides
by 2 othersI think that my main goal, which was to show how easy it is to start indexing existing content, was acheived and several people came to me and said they thing Zend_Search_Lucene is one killer component.
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