Ben Longden
The video of my talk at PHPNW ’11 has now been posted online at blip.tv
Enjoy!
I have split this post into two parts – starting with how pages are cached in the first place, and then how Magento retrieves a page from the cache before falling back to dispatching a controller.
How pages are cached
The Magento enterprise page cache module observes several events that are fired during the course [...]
I’ve had to reinstall OS X Lion in the past few days. Here is a list of apps that I really like (in no particular order)
Chrome / Firefox – Pretty much all that I use Safari for (sorry, apple!)
Twitter – obvious reasons
Alfred – really great app launcher (and other stuff)
Caffeine – [...]
XHTML is a tempting hypermedia format to use in a web service. A lot of the time, the sort of data that you serve using an API is very similar (if not the same) to what your website displays on its own. XHTML already has all the functionality built in for describing forms, where to [...]
I’m delighted to have been accepted to speak on REST and HATEOAS at the PHPNW conference. This marks the start of my speaking ‘career’, something that I have wanted to kick start for some time. The subject matter is something that I am very interested in, and it gives me a chance (and a focus [...]
When I first started out playing with PHP a number of years ago, I did it on my home PC running windows. I remember manually setting up apache (I never tried with IIS), configuring php to work with it and getting a mysql database up and running. The whole process was time consuming and frustrating [...]
Having attended a talk by David Zuelke on Saturday at the PHPNW Conference 2010, he provided a link at the end of his talk to a blog post by Ryan Tomayoko, titled ‘How I explained REST to my wife’.
It’s a brilliantly simple explanation of something that I have struggled to vocalise for a few [...]
An article that I wrote for techPortal has been published.
I am very pleased to announce this years PHPNW TestFest over at MadLab in Manchester. The event will take place on Saturday 11th September from 12pm until sometime around 5-6pm. Lunch will be provided (courtesy of our sponsor, Ibuildings), and I daresay we may wish to make an bit of an evening of [...]
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