Webhooks – Why I think they are win.

Webhooks – Why I think they are win.

Jan 25, 2010

First of all, I suggest you watch this video. http://www.webhooks.org/ It’ll explain a lot why webhooks are pretty fabulous. I’ve been trying to implement them recently in one of my own projects. I want a way to take a subscription payment for a web-service. The payment provider I have chosen is Recurly. This service has a payment page, very much...

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,...