PHP is slow. This should not be a huge revelation for any of us, and this is not because PHP is a bad programing language, or because Python or Ruby are better. This is because it is an interpreted language. Every time you execute a PHP script it is going to do the exact same [...]
When I started working in systems, one of my first client was a major bank. Yes, this was back in the mainframe batch processing days. They never did any system updates when they ran the month end, quarter end and especially year end. I always thought that they just weren’t confident in their system folks [...]
E-commercre Report; Several of the most popular online merchants have struggled to cope with the heavy holiday traffic, a survey shows. Ok, that was NYTimes 2003 – what about now? This season there have already been several announcements of ecommerce snafus. Sears.com site shut down for a couple of hours and there have even [...]
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