Anatomy of a flawed microbenchmark highlights some of the problems involved in creating microbenchmarks (Java oriented).
The scary thing about microbenchmarks is that they always produce a number, even if that number is meaningless. They measure something, we’re just not sure what. Very often, they only measure the performance of the specific microbenchmark, and nothing more. [...]
I went through today and reorganized the PHP Application Security pages on the WACT Wiki. This mini wiki within a wiki is one of the most popular pages there. While the page has been popular, it hasn’t attracted much contribution.
I broke the existing entries up into four main categories. There is alot [...]
I ran across Cedric Otaku’s blog entry about his first impressions working with PHP as an experienced Java programmer. Not surprisingly, he chose PHP partly because it was already available on his ISP.
He highlights syntax, available libraries and string handling as PHP’s strengths.
He has some problems with the scoping rules and with the [...]
Well, I upgraded to WordPress 1.5 today. Everything seems to have gone well. The upgrade from 1.2 to 1.5 was much less error prone than the upgrade from 1.02 to 1.2. The upgrade process is very well done. My BBCode plugin seems to work without modification (so far).
The new features in [...]
My name is Jeff Moore. I'm a PHP programmer living in San Francico and working for a startup.
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