Posts tagged ‘cache’

During last two months I spent massive amount of time tweaking Doctrine ORM framework and making it to perform as fast as possible (as you might have noticed from my never ending tweets). This post is devoted to performance and efficiency, with practical tips & tricks how to reduce memory usage, make it work [...]

Versioning is essential for source code control and there is fabulous amount of possible benefits. One of the possibilities is to let your source code know and make decisions using it’s version (revision) number.
For example, if you change your CSS code, you want users to get it immediately and not after their browser cached version [...]

“JavaScript packing” is method for reducing JavaScript files size by removing all unnecessary data (obfuscating) and compressing it’s contents. Most popular is Dean Edward’s packer, which transforms JavaScripts into something like this:

eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,r){…

To start with, it’s very easy to have dynamically packed files (no one wants to pack them by hand, packed versions are only useful [...]