With the help of the great guys at Slicehost.com, I am attempting to run my benchmark series on a virtual private server, to compare with EC2. However, I’m seeing a very strange result for the baselines: a PHP page delivers more requests-per-second than a static HTML page.
Congressmen, Senators, the President, and all the high advisors feel that “we need to do something!” about the current economic crisis. Leave aside that government action is at least 50% the reason we got into this mess (I’d rate it closer to 80%). These guys are succumbing to a major critical-thinking error:
1. We [...]
I just discovered nosmarty.net in my Solar referrer logs. I have little love for Smarty, so it’s nice to see this:
First released in January 2001, Smarty has become a stagnant, bug-ridden mess—and also the most popular PHP templating engine in use today. But it shouldn’t be. No Smarty was created to warn developers about [...]
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