software testing is essential

Did you know software developers spend 50% of their programming time finding and fixing bugs costing the global economy $312 billion per year? You don’t have to be one of them.

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PHP Cloud Development Casts

You’ve watched RailsCasts, you’ve watched ZendCasts – but what about screencasts for PHP Cloud Development techniques? Well we decided to commit to the project and make it happen and have begun development on a new site that both pays homage to RailsCasts and ZendCasts and is devoted to bringing you, once a month (potentially once a fortnight) a screencast about a technique of cloud development through the lens of PHP.

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Reflections on PHP Development

Well, it’s been a little while since I last wrote an entry for the blog. It’s tough to keep writing some times, but I realise that that’s no excuse. To be honest, I’ve been flat out on a few projects recently, including one really enjoyable – yet testing – Zend framework-based application, that’s kept me [...]

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Cloud Development with cloudControl on Malt Blue

In this, part four of the Beginning Cloud Development with cloudControl series, we’re going to speed up the work we undertook with MySQL in part 2 by adding Memcached support. So easy and so very painless.

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Cloud Development with cloudControl on Malt Blue

In this, part 3 of the Beginning Cloud Development with cloudControl series, we integrate mongoDB support in to our application. Honestly, nothing could be simpler than this, especially as we’re using the Shanty Mongo library for Zend Framework. Read on to find out how to do it.

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Cloud Development with cloudControl on Malt Blue

So you’ve gotten started with cloudControl; you’ve got a basic understanding of how to deploy with it. But today we take that further, showing you the MySQL add on and multi-environment deployment.

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Cloud Development with cloudControl on Malt Blue

So you’ve heard all about the cloud. In the current day and age, you’d have to be living under a rock to have not encountered it by now. Whether it’s Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft or Apple’s iCloud, The Cloud is Everywhere! But these aren’t the only options available. Introducing cloudControl.

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