http://www.prophpdevelopmentblog.com Nathan Malone on High Performance PHP / MySQL Web Development... Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:45:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After trying out MyIntervals for a while, I think I am going back to Basecamp for my project management solution. Why? I really liked the time tracking/time management that MyIntervals offered, but there are several areas where I feel it didn't meet my needs as well as Basecamp did. While MyIntervals might be ... http://www.prophpdevelopmentblog.com/2008/07/23/basecamp-vs-myintervals-pt-2/ About a week ago, I got an email stating that Sphinx version 0.9.8 had been released. I first used Sphinx well over a year ago, when I had a project that required full-text searching of a massive, 25 Million + database, something that was probably a little too big for the ... http://www.prophpdevelopmentblog.com/2008/07/23/sphinx-098-released-full-text-search-engine/ Project management software! If you aren't using it now, you're likely not being as productive as you otherwise might be. I have, in the past, used Basecamp to manage my projects (in conjunction with Blinksale). Recently, however, I have been wanting something a little different, so after eying it for a ... http://www.prophpdevelopmentblog.com/2008/05/23/project-management-software-basecamp-vs-myintervals/ As a PHP developer, I work quite a bit with MySQL database tables, having worked with several in the 40 Million + record range, as well as having to do several complex projects involving, in one case, interactions between over 60 different tables (not something I hope to do again, ... http://www.prophpdevelopmentblog.com/2008/05/22/mysql-injection-attacks/ Although this is not necessarily related to PHP development, the subject of time management and productivity is one that affects everyone. In my experience, those of us who work fulltime online (doing site development, internet marketing, or related work) often make poor use of our time. The nature of the ... http://www.prophpdevelopmentblog.com/2008/05/21/productivity-and-time-management/ As I work on programming projects, I am constantly looking for ways to boost productivity, decrease the development time, and, most importantly, to increase the quality of the code I produce. To those ends, I came across the family of MVC (model-view-control, a class design pattern) frameworks for PHP early in ... http://www.prophpdevelopmentblog.com/2008/03/20/codeigniter-php-framework/ Today, I thought I would knock out a relatively light subject before tackling heavier stuff in the upcoming weeks and months. That topic is implementing header redirects with PHP. Header redirects are redirects that are handled instantaneously and transparently by the browser, and come in two common forms: 301 redirects and ... http://www.prophpdevelopmentblog.com/2007/11/27/redirects-with-php/ A question that is often asked by new PHP programmers is: "How do we compress the (HTML) page output?" First of all, why would anyone want to compress their webpages? There are really two reasons why it is useful: The page loads faster, especially for users with slower internet connections The site uses ... http://www.prophpdevelopmentblog.com/2007/11/26/page-compression-with-php/