memory usage

Craig Buckler has added a new post to the SitePoint PHP blog today that looks at some of the PHP configuration options and how you can change them from two different places (besides the php.ini file).

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Brendon's Blog: 10 PHP functions you (probably) never use
• Tutorialzine.com: Advanced Event Timeline With PHP, CSS & jQuery
• StackOverflow.com: What PHP framework would you choose for a new application and why?
• Rdavid.net: Test Results on Memory Usage of Zend Framework and Doctrine with APC

Microsoft says it needs more time to address concerns with virtual memory usage in its next-generation integrated development environment.

Derick Rethans has a new post today talking about using the Xdebug tool to track the memory usage in your application with some of its profiling capabilities, specifically function traces.

New on his blog today Fabien Potencier tackles a tough topic for the PHP community - templating languages and whether or not their that useful/good after all.

New to Ruby 1.9 is the concept of fibers.

Fibers are light-weight (green) threads with manual, cooperative scheduling, rather than the preemptive scheduling of Ruby 1.8's threads.

Since Ruby 1.9's threads exist at the system level, fibers are, in a way, Ruby 1.9's answer to Ruby 1.8's green threads, but lacking the pre-emptive scheduling.

This new post to the PHPClasses.org blog take a look at some of the new features that will be included in the PHP 5.3 release (coming soon to a web server near you!) by way of an interview with Lukas Smith.