Posts tagged ‘apache’

Setting up Windows for PHP server

April 21st, 2009

To start with, all work took about 1:30, including Skype distractions, reading how-to’s, etc. Only one problem I had is that I was given remote desktop connection access to Windows Server 2008 machine, but I’m working with Linux. How to connect to remote desktop from Linux?
Luckily, I had Windows XP in VirtualBox so I tried [...]

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Using Phing to sync files with shared hosting

February 27th, 2009

Phing is a project build system. It’s wonderful tool to automate every-days task by writing build scenario – Phing can do everything what can be done with PHP or Linux console applications. Today I was trying to use it in shared hosting server, but as you will see, Phing can’t do a lot of it’s [...]

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Zend Server – complete PHP environment in minutes

February 19th, 2009

I believe that everyone who develops in PHP knows Zend (I know them from certification which I’ve done some time ago), especially now, when Zend Framework is more and more popular. Zend also makes (and probably specializes) software for web servers – Zend Guard, Zend Optimizer, etc. Recently Zend introduced new product – Zend Server. [...]

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Parallel processes in PHP

February 12th, 2009

When I was coding Ray-Tracer project for my Computer Science studies in university, I ran into using Haskell parallel map function (map calls function for all list elements). Ray-Tracer runs reflections, shadows, ray-casts, etc. detection for every single pixel in scene and since everything is mathematical calculations, it’s paralleling is almost trivial.
Parallel map functions does [...]

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