grain of salt

A few months ago we tackled the the popular rumor that the next iteration of Apple’s iPad would have a full Retina display.

At the time, I predicted that we were still about a year out from seeing such a device due to the fact that no semiconductor foundry had the capability to mass-produce the amount of high-res screens necessary to fill Cupertino’s needs.

In a recent post to his blog David Müller has taken a look at parallel processing in PHP using a few different methods - system calls, fork, and curl.

Brandon Savage has a reminder for both those familiar with PHP and a warning for those new to the language - take the examples in the comments of the PHP.net with a grain of salt.