This was meant to be a lengthy comparison of the stumbling blocks I found learning Java having come from PHP. However learning Java is currently on the back burner so I thought I’d post what I have anyway. Read the rest of this entry »

This is not something many web developers run up against, but for those with a spare hour, Channel9 has an insightful interview with some researchers from Microsoft Research Cambridge who explain their new solution for dealing with transactions and parallelism.

The recent introduction of multi-core processors this year has really pushed concurrency into the limelight of the software development community. With it attention has been drawn to functional programming, reasons for which are described here.

A useful bookmark for any developer using MySQL: 84 tips on improving your query performance in MySQL.