Ben Ramsey
Schematic
Ben Ramsey is a Senior Software Architect at Schematic. He is a prolific writer and frequent speaker, often writing and speaking about web services and HTTP. He has written for php|architect, International PHP Magazine, and Zend Developer Zone and is a co-author of php|architect's Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide. Ben is also the founder of the Atlanta PHP user group. He blogs at benramsey.com, and is on Twitter at @ramsey.
HTTP: Digested View session page
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We're web developers. Almost all the work we do concerns making requests and sending responses over the Web. Yet, how often do we really stop to consider the Web's protocol as part of our daily work? Still, we manipulate that protocol every day, whether we know it or not. Knowing this protocol and how it works can make us better web programmers.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (RFC 2616), or HTTP, is the protocol of the Web. In this in-depth tutorial, Ben Ramsey will address methods and status codes, success responses, error responses, redirection, content negotiation, caching, and authentication, all with an emphasis on following HTTP semantics in a RESTful fashion. Ben will also demonstrate tools for manipulating and testing HTTP, illustrate the use of the pecl/pecl_http extension for PHP, and discuss browser support for HTTP functionality.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (RFC 2616), or HTTP, is the protocol of the Web. In this in-depth tutorial, Ben Ramsey will address methods and status codes, success responses, error responses, redirection, content negotiation, caching, and authentication, all with an emphasis on following HTTP semantics in a RESTful fashion. Ben will also demonstrate tools for manipulating and testing HTTP, illustrate the use of the pecl/pecl_http extension for PHP, and discuss browser support for HTTP functionality.
Caching with Memcached and APC View session page
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Today's high-traffic web sites must implement performance-boosting measures that reduce data processing and reduce load on the database, while increasing the speed of content delivery. One such method is the use of a cache to temporarily store whole pages, database recordsets, large objects, and sessions. While many caching mechanisms exist, memcached provides one of the fastest and easiest-to-use caching servers. Coupling memcached with the alternative PHP cache (APC) can greatly improve performance by reducing data processing time. In this talk, Ben Ramsey covers memcached and the pecl/memcached and pecl/apc extensions for PHP, exploring caching strategies, a variety of configuration options to fine-tune your caching solution, and discusses when it may be appropriate to use memcached vs. APC to cache objects or data.
