Symfony and the scary world of PHP

Oct 26 2012 Published by under A tech a day

One of my clients demanded I do a recent project in PHP. Alarm bells all ’round, but hey, I used to do a lot of things in PHP before I got fed up with the inconsistent API and I hear many people still use it. It’s clearly a viable technology for  … things. Sure thing [...]

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Amdahl’s law in action – 27s to 0.03s by changing a function

Aug 17 2012 Published by under A tech a day,Haskell

Perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned while studying computer science is that of Amdahl’s law. Amdahl’s law is generally used to predict the maximum speedup by improving a single component of a system (say, a function or a database). But the implications are simple: Improve the thing that will actually help. As programmers, however, we would [...]

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My language is better than yours

Mar 30 2012 Published by under A tech a day

My language brings all the geeks to the yard, And they’re like “It’s better than yours” Damn right, it’s better than yours, I can teach you, but I have to charge Programming languages – the second favourite thing for geeks to fight about (right after code editors and IDE‘s). Everybody knows Java sucks, that PHP [...]

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Benchmarking node, tornado and django for concurrency

Apr 15 2011 Published by under Coding,Insanity

This is a continuation from the last time I benchmarked node vs. clojure for hard computation, sort of. This time ’round I decided to benchmark how many concurrent requests a single process of technology X can handle. Threading is fine.   tl;dr —> node is fast but a bit unpredictable, django fails a lot, tornado [...]

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Yay my blog is up and running again! :D

Mar 30 2010 Published by under Insanity

Image by jimmagz via Flickr Now this is the story all about how My blog got flipped, turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how I fucked it all up so damn well In West Apache born and raised On the playground where it spent [...]

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What I learned of PHP by ignoring it for three months

Oct 23 2009 Published by under Uncategorized

When I took a break from php three months ago I’d been up to my shoulders in the technology for about five years – I remember my first interactions with the language were figuring out whether I need to use .php3 or .php4 or just .php file extensions. But that’s not very interesting. A more [...]

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