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PHPImpact Blog: Flickr Architecture

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:37:13 -0500

The PHP::Impact blog has posted about a presentation given by Cal Henderson of the Flickr team on the site's architecture and how it uses PHP.

Topics mentioned in the talk included Flickr's use of shards, memcached, Smarty, ImageMagick, Apache and cvsup for distributing files across their networks.

The presentation can be viewed/downloaded from here.

Community News: Dutch PHP Conference 2008

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:33:34 -0500

This year's Dutch PHP conference (that happened in Amsterdam) has wrapped up and several members of the PHP community (and groups) have posted their slides and some of their experiences attending. Here's a few:

A summary from the PHP Women website
Lorna Mitchell's slides from the conference - PHP Deployment with SVN
A wrapup from Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Shots from Flickr tagged for the conference
some thoughts from Paul Wander of Ibuildings on the conference

Looks like the conference was a great success - thanks in no small part to the efforts of the Ibuildings team and Zend.

Community News: Dutch PHP Conference 2008 Wrapup

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:49:08 -0500

This year's Dutch PHP Conference has come to a close and several members of the community have posted their own wrapups and slides from the event. Here's some of them:

Stefan Priebsch's slides - PHP 5.3 and PHP 6 - A Look Ahead
Ivo Jansch's wrapaup
Helgi's coverage of each day - Day 1
Lorna Mitchell's experience giving her talk there at the conference and her first day summary
Sebastian Bergmann's slides - New Features in PHPUnit 3.3, Quality Assurance in PHP Projects

If you weren't able to attend, be sure to check out some of the pictures from the conference over on Flickr (and if you were there, be sure to tag your own pictures with "dpc08").

Hasin Hayder's Blog: Building services like FriendFeed using PHP - Part 1

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:47:32 -0500

Hasin Hayder has posted part one of a series he's doing on making an application similar to the popular FriendFeed site in PHP.

Friendfeed is an excellent life streaming service aggregating all your feeds from different service providers, compile them together, build a social network among your known people and finally deliver all these feeds as a mashup. [...] In this blog post I will try to focus on how to develop such a service like Friendfeed using PHP and JS and how to scale such a huge load successfully.

This first part looks at the photo sharing handling of the application, including links to libraries already written in PHP to connect to them (like Flickr and Smugmug).