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Mike Willbanks has a new post to his blog about a different sort of technique for deploying PHP - building your own RPMs instead of just using the pre-packaged ones.

This opens up a whole world of customization options.

As I ws working on some new development in our codebase this morning, I started updating some
unit tests to match.

I was looking through the code for one of them and came across a test name that was easily 50 characters long and
it got me wondering – what was the popular opinion on naming conventions and commenting in unit tests.

Obviously, there’s some things
(like annotations) that have to be in comments, but do you sacrifice clarity of a comment for a method name that you can basically read
like a novel?

Mike Willbanks has a new tutorial posted to his blog today about combining memcache and the Zend Framework's caching component to work with session handling.

In this new post to his blog Mike Willbanks shows you how you can integrate the Gearman tool (for automating multiple workers to do jobs behind the scenes) into a Zend Framework application, creating a full setup and a sample job.

When scale and performance is important, you start to look into moving operations into synchronous or asynchronous tasks.

This is important for any web application that must scale out and/or to add new ways of handling feedback to your users.

While I will not be going into detail of how to operate Gearman or briefing you on ways of utilizing gearman, what I am going to show you is how to incorporate Gearman into being it’s own Zend Framework application.

Nginx, a HTTP and reverse proxy server, known for its blazing speed in serving static files, including grand performance in terms of serving up FastCGI pages makes for a great coupling with the upcoming PHP-FPM sapi in PHP (It is currently in the 5.3 branch and previously was a patch) offer a great solution for finally getting rid of that old sloppy mod_php in Apache.

Do you have the same issue where your apache instances have started to run too large? This might be the time to start to move forward.

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Mike Willbanks recently posted a look at deployment in PHP applications and all of the processes/systems surrounding it:

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There's been lots of talk about type hinting lately (both on blogs and on mailing lists) so Mike Willbanks has decided to add some of his own thoughts about why it should be included.