I’m not a fan of writing about other people’s articles if you’ve got nothing new to add …. but i saw this earlier on the google blog:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html
Summary is they are saying that it is actually easier for google if you don’t use URL rewriting. Something which goes against what we’ve all been hearing from [...]

I was looking at ways to squeeze a bit more performance out of a query yesterday, and came accross this:
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/04/06/using-delayed-join-to-optimize-count-and-limit-queries/
Take this example (structure doesn’t really matter):
SELECT *
FROM table1
LEFT JOIN table2 ON table1.fk=table2.pk
LEFT JOIN table3 ON table1.fk2=table3.id
WHERE table1.field=’123′ |
ORDER BY table1.field2
LIMIT 20, 30
If you’ve got a lot of joined records in table2 or 3, then the [...]

I’m currently on the train home from PHPLondon 08 – which has been a useful and in some cases eye opening day.
At work we’ve recently tried CakePHP on a project – which hasn’t been plain sailing. There have been a few issues with cake, including the one discussed here, and its getting towards the [...]

I’ve just spent most of a day debugging an intermittent problem with session persistence in a cake php powered application. This was further complicated in that it only arose in Internet Explorer – unusual for server side code.
I should point out at this point that the application is using Cake’s database based session [...]