Content Vs Design – A Rant

Content Vs Design – A Rant

Jan 29, 2010

Whats this rant all about then? First of all let me start by saying that this problem is something that I’ve noticed a lot recently. While I work with various ecommerce and content management platforms, I find myself with my fingers in the templates. When you first install a blog, shopping cart or anything else where the software is off the shelf and you...

Speeding up your PHP: full page caches.

Speeding up your PHP: full page caches.

Jan 22, 2010

Why cache content? Sometimes, when you are creating custom solutions in PHP, you don’t have the luxury of speedup caches in Ecommerce and CMS frameworks. The problem is that people arent always experts in database design, and SQL, so pages with messy queries in them tend to load slowly. This can lose visitors interest, and if its ecommerce related,...