Recently while I was working on a site that Im creating, I needed a way to easily send email out to users. Like a lot of people that have domain names and dont want to run their own mail server, I have decided to let Google Apps handle all of my email and app related needs. Now way you dont have a mail server and dont want to maintain one. Maybe you dont know how or just dont want to deal with maintaining such a service. Well as it turns out, you can use Google ...
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When it comes to web application performance, often times your database will be the largest bottleneck and can really slow you down. So how can you speed up performance when you have a site or application that is constantly hitting your database to either write new data or to fetch stored data? One of the easiest ways is to cache the data that is accessed the most. Today, I cam going to show you a brief example of how to do this with Memcached using PHP and th...
When it comes to scaling a web application, one of the easiest ways to boost performance is with an asynchronous queue. Since web apps have started to become as complex as native desktop applications, users are expecting them to perform like such. This is where using asynchronous queues comes in to play. Typically with high traffic sites like Facebook, digg, twitter, et al, not everything needs to happen instantaneously, it just needs to look like it. For example, when you choose to send a mess...
All this time, Ive been creating libraries for Codeigniter and talking about its features and whats so awesome about it, but Ive never actually explained what Codeigniter is. So some of you might be looking at the GCal Library I wrote and be like "what the hell is this guy talking about??". So Ive decided that I should probably do a mini series of blog posts, introducing the Codeigniter Framework and even do a couple of tutorials on how to start developing with it.
First of, what is Cod...
Back a few years ago I decided that I wanted to set up my very own web server so that I could do your typical web stuff. Granted this was before the days of twitter, Facebook, and before everyone started releasing API's for their applications, so the web was a simpler place. Well back then I knew nothing of Linux let alone how to use a terminal to get anything done, and there was no definitive guide for installing a web server on a dedicated machine. So that's what I hope to solve. So today we w...
