Benchmarks Last Week
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Brief items about notable IT developments, both present and past.
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Plus: Amazon margins a concern...AT&T profit rises...Samsung SDI swings to loss...Outstanding earnings for Apple.
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Based off of a previous article from Mike Willbanks, Stuart Herbert has posted some of his own thoughts on tuning and tweaking your applications for the best performance you can get out of them.   There's some good advice in there, and I thought it'd be a good idea to quickly add a bit more detail about the separate approaches that Mike raises.   He goes over the APC caching, memcache, the "gzip trick", the "Not Modified" header and optimized SQL statements.   He also mentions one thing that Mike didn't mention - a split between static files (no PHP needed) and their dynamic cousins. Having a more pure Apache (no PHP installed) can help give a minute jump in speed that, depending on the size of the site, could really add up from a user's perspective.
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Plus: IBM targets well above expectations...AMD has wider loss due to charge on ATI purchase...Sony Ericsson exceeds expectations...Intel remains optimistic.
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With new rankings due soon, SGI, IBM and others jostle for bragging rights. Also: Speedy Mac system gets speedier.
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:PHP.net: PHP 4 end of life announcementZend Developer Zone: Book Review: Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHPStoyan Stefanov's Blog: phpBB front-end optimization - 1 hour workshopSitePoint PHP Blog: Win Cash for the best Facebook App!Elizabeth Naramore's Blog: July Edition of IPM PublishedJob Posting: ManicMelon.com Seeks Mid-Senior LAMP Web Application Developer (Overland Park, KS)Paul Jones' Blog: Solar Views and LayoutsCodeIgniter Blog: Version 1.5.4 ReleasedPHP-GTK Community Site: MkDevDVD (DVD Manager for Linux)Job Posting: Next Internet Seeks Senior Software Engineer (San Francisco, CA)
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roundup Plus: WebSideStory cuts IPO to 4.4 million shares...BMC looks to simplify network operations...Data center firms settle cookie suit.
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Plus:  Microsoft tops its expectations...Google doubles profit year-over-year...SAP earnings beat estimates...EarthLink trims outlook...AT&#38;T posts $7.1 billion loss...Lucent sees first profitable year since 2000...EMC issues sunny report.
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Plus: Linux demand lifts Red Hat profit...Strong sales of phones, other gadgets boost PalmOne profit...Lawson expects quarterly loss.
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Treasury bills were mixed after seesawing through the week. Bonds rallied at midweek, after the Federal Reserve signaled it would likely raise its benchmark overnight interest rate in small steps in coming
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Mike Willbanks has posted an introduction he's written up giving some helpful hints at tuning your servers and PHP applications for performance.   The focus of this post is not to show performance related items to specific PHP frameworks since many bottlenecks actually apply before running the framework itself that should certainly be solved up front. Therefore in this posting I attempt to look at simple items that can be deployed in order to produce finer tuned systems.  He talks about a few different aspects:  PHP Performance Tuning (opcode caching, apc file priming, includes, loops, etc) RDBMS Performance Tuning (indexes in queries, query caching, archiving) HTTP Performance Tuning (content compression, css sprites, limit modules, etc)
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By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 17--Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports.
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Chips, bank slips and audio clips will rule the week ahead. Let's take a look.
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Checking in on two underdog picks, as well as some companies left on the bench.
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Software, hardware, and sea fare will color in the week that lies ahead.
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A look back at an eventful week in the investment banking world.
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Trade deficit figures headline a light week for economic data.