1. Improving Your PHP Code Performance Part 1: Profiling and Detecting Slow Code
Updated on: 2015-09-08
Posted on: 2015-09-08
Blog: PHP Preemptive Cache package blog
Package: PHP Preemptive Cache
Sometimes we have to deal with PHP code that takes longer to run than it should. When that happens we tend to keep trying to figure the causes and take every opportunity to improve the code. Sometimes it is not enough to clean up or refactor the code.
Read this article to learn techniques to detect what PHP code is causing your application to run so slow.
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Read this article to learn techniques to detect what PHP code is causing your application to run so slow.
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Updated on: 2015-09-07
Posted on: 2015-09-07
Blog: PHP Sweepstakes package blog
Package: PHP Sweepstakes
In the first part of this article it was covered the problem of computing the dates of periodical events and nuances that can make the solution more complicated.
Read this article to learn how to use the PHP Sweepstakes package to solve a real world example of the problem.
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Read this article to learn how to use the PHP Sweepstakes package to solve a real world example of the problem.
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Updated on: 2015-09-01
Posted on: 2015-09-01
Blog: PHP Sentiment Analyzer package blog
Package: PHP Sentiment Analyzer
In the first part of this article we learned about the theory of analyzing a text to determine the sentiments expressed by the user that wrote it.
Read this article to learn to how to implement a sentiment analysis application in practice based on the PHP Sentiment Analyzer class.
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Read this article to learn to how to implement a sentiment analysis application in practice based on the PHP Sentiment Analyzer class.
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Updated on: 2015-08-31
Posted on: 2015-08-31
Blog: PHP Sweepstakes package blog
Package: PHP Sweepstakes
Sometimes it is necessary to calculate the days of periodical events, like for instance sweepstakes, contests, regular publications, etc..
In general, it is an easy problem to solve. However when the events span multiple days and must not occur in holidays, the problem becomes less trival to solve.
Read this article to learn how you can use the PHP Sweepstakes class to compute the days of regular event taking in account these nuances that may complicate the calculations.
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In general, it is an easy problem to solve. However when the events span multiple days and must not occur in holidays, the problem becomes less trival to solve.
Read this article to learn how you can use the PHP Sweepstakes class to compute the days of regular event taking in account these nuances that may complicate the calculations.
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Updated on: 2015-08-31
Posted on: 2015-08-27
This is the August edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of May 2015.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Updated on: 2015-08-25
Posted on: 2015-08-25
Nowadays working with a version control application like Git is mandatory for all software developers, even those that work alone in private projects that are not going to be published anywhere.
In the first part of this article we covered the basic benefits of working it explaining some of the most commonly used features, some very well known, others not so much.
Read this part the article to learn how use Git in projects the involve collaboration between multiple developers, how to take advantage of existing Web platforms that support Git, and how to migrate from older version control applications like SubVersion.
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In the first part of this article we covered the basic benefits of working it explaining some of the most commonly used features, some very well known, others not so much.
Read this part the article to learn how use Git in projects the involve collaboration between multiple developers, how to take advantage of existing Web platforms that support Git, and how to migrate from older version control applications like SubVersion.
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Updated on: 2017-04-05
Posted on: 2015-08-24
Blog: PHP Sentiment Analyzer package blog
Package: PHP Sentiment Analyzer
With growth of people that go on the Internet to express their opinions about brands and other matters, Sentiment Analysis tools are becoming increasingly important to help companies and individuals to react in a timely manner to incidents that affect their business and reputation.
Fortunately we already have the Machine Learning technology necessary to implement sentiment analysis even using pure PHP code.
Read this article to learn more about how you can implement your own sentiment analysis tools in your PHP own applications.
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Fortunately we already have the Machine Learning technology necessary to implement sentiment analysis even using pure PHP code.
Read this article to learn more about how you can implement your own sentiment analysis tools in your PHP own applications.
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Updated on: 2015-08-20
Posted on: 2015-08-19
Git is a very popular source version control application but not every software developer uses it.
Even many developers that already use Git sometimes do not quite realize all the benefits it provides.
Read this article to learn about the most important advantages of using Git and how you can benefit from them to have greater quality in your software projects of any language.
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Even many developers that already use Git sometimes do not quite realize all the benefits it provides.
Read this article to learn about the most important advantages of using Git and how you can benefit from them to have greater quality in your software projects of any language.
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Updated on: 2015-08-19
Posted on: 2015-08-18
In the first part of this article we learned how to use PHP traits to organize better functionality to be reused by multiple unrelated classes.
Read this article to learn more about advanced features of traits like solving conflicts when using traits that define the same properties, changing the visibility of a trait method in the class that uses it, reusing traits within traits, examples of packages that provide general purpose traits for use by many other packages.
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Read this article to learn more about advanced features of traits like solving conflicts when using traits that define the same properties, changing the visibility of a trait method in the class that uses it, reusing traits within traits, examples of packages that provide general purpose traits for use by many other packages.
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Updated on: 2023-08-22
Posted on: 2015-08-17
Recently researchers from Google and Intel have approached the PHP core developers to offer to contribute to PHP development by implementing features that will make PHP fast and more secure.
These Google and Intel researchers help offers and their first proposals was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 62 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on a proposal for having type hinting in class variables in future PHP 7 versions, new reports that show how PHP 7 performance is improving on day by day basis, as well other PHP 7 feature proposals.
They also commented on the latest PHP tutorial articles and book reviews published in the last month.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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These Google and Intel researchers help offers and their first proposals was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 62 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on a proposal for having type hinting in class variables in future PHP 7 versions, new reports that show how PHP 7 performance is improving on day by day basis, as well other PHP 7 feature proposals.
They also commented on the latest PHP tutorial articles and book reviews published in the last month.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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