Hopefully, this will be useful to other conference attendees, if any of you are reading this ( Read more... )

Presented by Chris Anderson, Wired

Attendees received a free copy of Chris Anderson's The Long Tail book ( Read more... )

High Volume PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques

Presented by Elliott White III of digg.com

Introduction
Performance is a problem, but scaling is always a bigger problem, and you can't always throw hardware at a problem quick enough.

Standard SolutionMany PHP servers behind a load balancer, and many mysql slaves all talking to a single master ( Read more... )

The panel was moderated by Steve O'Grady (Redmonk), and its participants included Bill Hilf (Microsoft), Tim Bray (Sun), Mike Olson (Oracle), Mårten Mickos (MySQL), and Anant Jhingran (IBM ( Read more... )

For all the Mac laptops I'm seeing at the conference, it's a little surprising that I'm not seeing any other Macs show up in Rendezvous Browser. I wonder if the wireless isn't rebroadcasting Rendezvous traffic?

The keynote was delayed for a bit due to microphone problems, and there were a few ongiong issues (e.g. lack of a remote contro for the slide presentation). Most of the presentation was given by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, the co-founders of Zend ( Read more... )

There is an amazing dearth of power outlets here. I may need to steal the six-way splitter that's in the room and carry it around with me so that when I'm actually lucky enough to be near a power outlet that's occupied, it can be shared ( Read more... )

I'm not really going to go too much in detail about the Extending PHP session I was at yesterday, which was presented by Marcus Boerger and Sara Golemon. It was a pretty technical look at how to write extensions for PHP. Any discussion on extending php, though, has to explain a fair amount of php's internal workings, and that's really why I was ( Read more... )

The first session I attended today was on improving the performance of PHP applications, presented by Ilia Alshanetsky. It was pretty informative, but he spent a significant amount of time talking about optimizations that, while relevant, aren't php-specific, which makes them both useful for all websites, not just PHP applications.

• Apache ( Read more... )