Published in PHP Magazin 6.08 by Carsten Lucke The adoption of caching techniques allows to increase an applications performance significantly. Especially complex and time consuming operations can benefit from using a cache.

Published in PHP Magazin 5.08 by Carsten Lucke Programming desktop applications in PHP? Yes, that’s possible. Usually the PHP-GTK extension to accomplish this task. GTK is available for a lot of operating systems and thus quite portable. However, GTK applications often have a different look that distinguishes them from native applications. For Mac OS X … Read more →

It’s been a while since my last article but finally I had some time and managed to write for the german PHP-Magazin, again. To my surprise my article was even chosen as cover-topic. Yippieh! I wrote about PHP- and web-development on Mac OS X using TextMate.

Published in PHP Magazin 1.06 by Carsten Lucke PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in PHP Magazin 6.05 by Carsten Lucke PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in PHP Magazin 5.05 by Carsten Lucke PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in PHP Magazin 4.05 by Carsten Lucke and Stephan Schmidt PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in PHP Magazin 2.05 by Carsten Lucke and Stephan Schmidt Online music-stores like Musicload are currently pretty much of public interest. To show information about songs in MP3-format not even any kind of database is needed but all necessary information is stored inside the file itself. This article shows how to get access to … Read more →

Published in PHP Magazin 6.04 by Carsten Lucke The new PHP5 comes with some interesting changes concerning the command-line interface (CLI). It allows the user to process input-data from the standard input stream (stdin) line by line. In many cases this allows fast and efficient processing of data that comes from files or program outputs.