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A Simple App Engine Picture API

Making a micro web service for processing and resizing images.

FullCodePrevise

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Running multiple virtual hosts under Apache on Windows XP

This will be of no interest to most people but it's useful to note for future reference. The various click-installer solutions to set up Apache and PHP under Windows such as WAMP don't seem to automate…

Because it's Unix

Watch the cascade from Ruby is Unix to Python is Unix to Perl is Unix.

Is PHP Doomed?

There's a tide of opinion suggesting that PHP is threatened with extinction as standard hardware begins to favour widening multicore processors. This would be a fair argument if PHP was a general…

Rethinking Persistence

People are starting to catch on to two very powerful ideas - that functional languages are ideal for building persistent storage repositories, and that a huge subset of web applications don't need…

Silverstripe behind the scenes at the DNC

Silverstripe is powering the Democratic National Convention website. The site has survived a maelstrom of traffic, peaking at well over 700 unique visitors per second, not to mention an additional…

PHP4 No More

Finally, the announcement that everyone's been waiting for: Rasmus and the Zend team have agreed to make an official announcement to discontinue support for PHP4. I've been using PHP5 almost exclusively…