Posts tagged ‘optimization’

Zend Framework is NOT bloated

March 12th, 2010

Zend Framework is always considered as being the slow/bloated one. I don’t think this is right, so I decided to prove that it’s not correct and in fact ZF is as good as other frameworks are. This post doesn’t cover any benchmarks though; this is more like a architecture review and some misconceptions disproof. [...]

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Zend Framework and Doctrine. Part 3

November 30th, 2009

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 [...]

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E-commerce sales tracking with Google Analytics

February 25th, 2009

Google Analytics is default choice for visitors tracking, but it can be also used for sales statistics. I have been working with e-commerce projects for a while, and have implemented very powerful back-end statistics tools, but I always try to search for easier to use (and functional enough) tools. Today I’m going to talk about [...]

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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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Correct headers for dynamically generated content

February 15th, 2009

Static images have correct headers – Apache sends them by default. Different story is with all dynamic generating content – if you don’t send correct headers user’s browser will load it every time. It’s not always good, because generated thumbnails doesn’t change every time and should be cached in browser’s cache. If you want to [...]

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Easy javascript packing with PHP

February 5th, 2009

“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 [...]

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