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For the last 14 months we’ve been developing an application to replace 90000 lines of PHP code. Rewriting the application from scratch to support I18N and many of the enhancements it needed was deemed...
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Here’s a programmer that is saying goodbye to ORMs at Hatful of Hollow. And another site offering a tutorial of sorts dealing with ORMs Why should you use an ORM. While both have their points, both...
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A few months ago we had a client that wanted to run Nginx/FastCGI rather than Apache because it was known to be faster. While we’ve had extensive experience performance tuning various webserver...
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Over the years we’ve had to deal with persistent security scans from hosts around the world, verifying that our installations were secure. After witnessing a competitor implode this morning as the...
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