Linux and PHP web application support and development (Bromsgrove, UK)
Recently we’ve helped build animal-licensing.uk – a site that helps the public check whether an animal business is appropriately licensed, and check the rating provided. Technically it’s built using Laravel and Typesense (which we’ve also rolled out in a few other places to replace legacy usage of Solr).
Here’s why it’s a good idea …. (The server was upgraded on the 23rd of May. The graph shows CPU time – where yellow is idle and blue+green are used/busy).
3D Printworld‘s new website recently went live. We wrote it from the ground up, applying a theme provided by an external designer. It has a responsive design so should look good on mobile and desktop platforms and an integrated CMS for administrators to update content through. It uses PayPal for payments. So, if you need […]
Recently, the Bromsgrove Hockey club asked if they could show upcoming matches / fixtures / results on their website. Here’s a short summary of how we integrated Google Drive/Docs Spreadsheets with WordPress.
Normally, profiling a PHP application is pretty straight forward thanks to the great xDebug . Normally, we’re looking at profiling a slow page (taking 5-15 seconds to load) and improving it’s performance down to a sub-second response. Such profiling can produce relatively large output files – e.g. in the order of a few hundred megabytes. Unfortunately […]
One customer parse a substantial amount of (somewhat poorly formed) XML on a daily basis. (I say poorly formed as the prolog does not specify a character set — i.e. the file starts with <?xml version=”1.0″> and not <?xml version=”1.0″ charset=”UTF-8″> and different files will contain either UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 text depending on the data […]
We have a set of PHPUnit tests running against a Propel/PDO application. Recently, with a recent increase in the number of tests, we’ve found that we’ve been hitting MySQL’s max_connections or max_user_connections limit (see /etc/mysql/my.cnf on the MySQL server).
Today we received an email along the lines of : “Help! A customer’s website is slow and they’re complaining it’s taking over 2 seconds to load!”
The PHPNE 2014 conference is almost upon us (March 18th). See their website for more details. The schedule looks awesome – I wish I could make it. As mentioned before, Pale Purple has helped by sponsoring the event – and we’re listed on http://conference.phpne.org.uk/sponsors.html (Perhaps we should add a listing of conferences we’ve sponsored […]
PHP 5.6 is almost here (we hope) – so we’ve had a look at some of the upcoming changes, and here are the ones of most interest to us. In a nutshell – variadics & splat, constant scalar expressions and ArrayOf type hinting ….