158. MODX: A CMS Framework Designed with PHP Developers in Mind
Updated on: 2011-09-22
Posted on: 2011-09-22
If you have ever wrestled with trying to create a custom Web site using a CMS that made you jump through hoops to get the desired output, you should definitely check out MODX, a CMS framework designed from the ground up with Object Oriented Programming PHP developers in mind.
Read this article to learn more about MODX CMS framework and how you can easily use it to build your own content management system customized to your needs.
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Read this article to learn more about MODX CMS framework and how you can easily use it to build your own content management system customized to your needs.
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Updated on: 2010-11-17
Posted on: 2010-11-17
After several months of development, Google announces a stable release of mod_pagespeed, an Apache 2 Web server module that can automatically optimize the Web pages that are served by Apache without any changes to the actual scripts that generate those Web pages.
This article explains in more detail what is mod_pagespeedup and how you can use it to improve the speed of serving your site Web pages.
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This article explains in more detail what is mod_pagespeedup and how you can use it to improve the speed of serving your site Web pages.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2010-10-28
Asynchronous programming allows developers to write faster code by running multiple parallel tasks at the same time.
This contrasts with the traditional synchronous programming on which programs perform a task and do nothing else besides waiting for the task to finish before proceeding to the next task.
This article explains better what is asynchronous programming and how you can implement it in PHP to develop code that executes tasks much faster.
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This contrasts with the traditional synchronous programming on which programs perform a task and do nothing else besides waiting for the task to finish before proceeding to the next task.
This article explains better what is asynchronous programming and how you can implement it in PHP to develop code that executes tasks much faster.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2010-10-25
Web server machines usually do many other things besides serving Web pages. Often they have background tasks running that may slow down significantly the Web server processes that deliver the pages to the site users.
This article is the second part of the Unusual Site Speedup series that focus on what to do to make sure that Web server processes run as fast as possible by slowing down background tasks that may be taking too much machine resources.
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This article is the second part of the Unusual Site Speedup series that focus on what to do to make sure that Web server processes run as fast as possible by slowing down background tasks that may be taking too much machine resources.
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Updated on: 2010-10-21
Posted on: 2010-10-21
In the latest weeks, several measures have been implemented to provide dramatic improvements to the speed of this site.
This article is the first of several that describe those measures and how you can also apply to your sites too.
On the first part it is described how to make Web pages load much faster when there is heavy content slowing down the page loading, such as advertising or widgets retrieved from other sites.
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This article is the first of several that describe those measures and how you can also apply to your sites too.
On the first part it is described how to make Web pages load much faster when there is heavy content slowing down the page loading, such as advertising or widgets retrieved from other sites.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2010-03-09
Neural networks allow emulating the behavior of a brain in software applications. Neural Networks have always had a too steep learning curve to venture towards, especially in a Web environment.
Neural Mesh is an open source, pure PHP code based Neural Network manager and framework that makes it easier to work with Neural Networks.
This article explains how to easily implement Neural Mesh to develop Neural Network applications in PHP.
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Neural Mesh is an open source, pure PHP code based Neural Network manager and framework that makes it easier to work with Neural Networks.
This article explains how to easily implement Neural Mesh to develop Neural Network applications in PHP.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2010-03-01
Nowadays there is a new kind of databases that is getting very popular, specially for Web development, including the PHP world, which are the NoSQL databases.
This article focus specifically on MongoDB, despite there are several other NoSQL database implementations.
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This article focus specifically on MongoDB, despite there are several other NoSQL database implementations.
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Updated on: 2010-02-10
Posted on: 2009-11-23
Gearman is a tool for distributing processing jobs over one or more machines.
This article explains how to use Gearman in PHP applications to handle better the load of busy sites or applications that need to execute heavy jobs.
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This article explains how to use Gearman in PHP applications to handle better the load of busy sites or applications that need to execute heavy jobs.
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Updated on: 2009-10-08
Posted on: 2009-10-08
LiveDocx is a Zend Framework package that implements a new approach to generate PDF documents in PHP.
It combines structured data passed by a PHP script with a template created in a word processor. It is the same concept as mail merge.
The resulting document can be saved as a PDF, as well in other formats such as DOCX, DOC or RTF file.
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It combines structured data passed by a PHP script with a template created in a word processor. It is the same concept as mail merge.
The resulting document can be saved as a PDF, as well in other formats such as DOCX, DOC or RTF file.
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Updated on: 2009-06-14
Posted on: 2009-04-14
This is a small article to tell about an experience that a PHP developer carried to successfully run a PHP application on Google App Engine.
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