Improve Your PHP Performance By Upgrading To PHP 7

When your phone starts to feel slow or you find your tablet or laptop taking a long time to perform some task, you start to think about upgrading. Odds are a newer device will come with better specs and a generally more performant device.

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Tips for Writing Better Performing PHP Code

Should you use single quotes or double quotes when writing PHP? How about URLs? Should they be absolute or relative? You make choices like these when writing code and your choice will depend on a any number of factors, one of which is performance.

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An Introduction To Performance And Dynamic Websites

A couple of weeks ago I shared some performance tests for server response time as well as Speed Index and time to first byte that I ran on this site before and after moving to a new web host. The posts were part of an on-again off-again series about website performance that I’ve been running the last year or so. In every post up to this point I’ve talked as though all sites were built in fundamentally the same way. As you know, not all sites are built in the same way.

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What I’d Tell My Younger Self About Learning Development As A Web Designer

You understand the fundamental principles of design and you know how to build web pages with html and css. Now what? Where do you turn next to expand your design and development skills?

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