php|architect magazine has released their latest issue - the August 2007 edition. The cover story for this month is a piece by Dirk Merkel covering the automation and benchmarking/code profiling of your application to find potential issues before your customers/users do.

Other great articles in this issue include:

• a look at Flex and the Zend Framework
• part one of a series on normalization (Chinese)
• using cURL to extract pages and their data
• "The Job Interview" - an insiders guide.

There's two ways to get this issue - you can either subscribe to the magazine for a year (the PDF edition is only $40 USD) or you can buy the single issue for about $5 USD.