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How to – LIKE – use prepared statements
I was going to do the whole Valley Girl theme for this post, but decided that was lame. So while converting an internal application query into a user-input web query when I stumbled across a problem. My prepared statement was not throwing an error and not giving me results. It took me a while to [...]
OSCON 2009 – Quality Assurance in PHP Projects
Quality Assurance in PHP Projects Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc) Another awesome presentation and workshop today. There are so many take-aways, I’m not sure what to add in. I took five pages of notes. PHPUnit Best Practices: Use the setup() method Make functions for code that is reused. Make test for edge cases. Use –testdox to display [...]
Utilizing mod_deflate & zlib for web performance
Every webmaster is looking for ways to enhance performance. I’ve researched the web and found some hits and some misses. Here are a couple changes that have dramatically improved Apache and PHP performance for me. Of course, this is my implementation, and I’d like to hear from others how I could improve.
