Introduction to Scaling PHP Applications – Part 1

Zach Gardner Architecture, Articles, Programming, Scaling PHP Apps, Tutorial 12 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.This is the first blog in a two-part series on scaling PHP applications. Part one will focus on replacing Apache while part two will …

Top 10 Web Application Security Risks From OWASP

Todd Horn Articles, Security Leave a Comment

Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a worldwide not-for-profit charitable organization focused on improving the security of software. Its mission is to …

Gradle: do we need another build tool?

Rik Scarborough Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java 2 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.In the early days of Java development, we either didn’t see much of a need for build tools, or used what we had from …

An argument against defaulting to auto-increment primary keys

Shannon Griswold Articles, Databases, Java 11 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.The de-facto โ€œeasyโ€ primary key for ages has been the auto-incrementing integer. Upon insertion of a new record, the database simply increments a counter …

Whatโ€™s up with WITH?

Scott Peters Articles, Databases, Development Technologies & Tools, Python 1 Comment

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Ah, the WITH statement. A (mostly) loved holdover from such languages as Python and VB(A) that still finds some questionable use today in JavaScript. …