Bootstrapping a Silex framework site
Recently I have been trying out the Silex micro-framework, as its counterpart Symfony was overkill for what I need. In the process of creating new test sites, I found that…
Link Tuesday: Week 6
Private By Default - Tim Bray's thoughts on why you should turn TLS/SSL on by default for your websites. Setting Apache MaxClients for small servers - A guide to configuring…
Link Tuesday: Week 5
Linux Crontab: 15 Awesome Cron Job Examples - Various ways to use Linux's cron job scheduling system to run tasks at regular intervals. Highly Available Real Time Push Notifications and…
Link Tuesday: Week 4
WordPress 3.5 released - Another major update, with 945 tickets closed. Upgrade as soon as you can. 9 Magic Methods in PHP - Lorna Jane explains the most common 'magic' methods in…
Link Tuesday: Week 3
Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1 - Language-agnostic lessons learnt about scaling one of the most popular file storage/sharing services. Twig Doesn't Make Templating Your Enemy - Slides and…
Web developer at spontly in Newcastle
spontly are looking for a web developer to work from their Newcastle office on a permanent full-time basis. Salary is £18,000-25,000 and the job requires someone with experience in PHP,…
PHP Developer at CandidSky in central Manchester
CandidSky are looking for a PHP Developer based in central Manchester. The position is flexible and they're happy to hear from people who want to work on a full-time, part-time or…
Web developer jobs at Zucchi
Zucchi are looking for web developers and sales associates to join their team in Cheshire (though remote working is also offered - I'm not sure if this is full time or…
Link Tuesday: Week 2
Scaling my blog for high traffic – WordPress + Apache + Varnish + Nginx - Tim's experiences on handling large amounts of traffic to a WordPress site on a small virtual…
Link Tuesday: Week 1
Link Tuesday is a website built around a Twitter hash tag (#linktuesday) which encourages people to tweet about links which they have found useful that week. I prefer a slightly…