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9 Sep 2010, by Mike C

We're Hiring Again: Senior PHP Developer with an interest in Drupal - FILLED

Come and join our well established web development studio as the lead developer of our PHP based team.

We build interactive sites of no fixed type, so every project can be very different to keep you on your toes! You'll be involved with a number of projects at any one time ranging from international brands to charities and start-ups. We also run several internal projects which you'll have chance to provide input and development for - this is where we often experiment with new ideas first.

Ideally you'll have several years (3+) PHP experience, but also the knowledge of best practices when working as a team on projects. It will be your responsibility to take the lead on technical decisions for projects.

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14 Mar 2010, by Mike C

Generating a Twitpic.com Gallery

Whilst doing some R&D around Twitter related services I've noticed holes lacking in APIs for a number of services. It's not just myself that groans, support queues, mailing lists and Twitter are full of people grumbling about lacking functionality from the services.

Today it was the turn of photo hosting service Twitpic who provide a great basic API service but lacks any ability to extract all images for a specific user through the API. A minor bonus is that each user of the service gets an RSS feed of their uploaded images, although it only serves the last 20 images - 20 being the number of photos shown per page.

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25 Sep 2009, by Mike C

We want PHP/Drupal Developers

After another successful year in the land of Drupal we're pleased to be expanding the development team here at Ixis. We're on the look out for two developers to join us on-site in our Daresbury office in the UK. Your work will be based at our new office and travel to clients is not required.

We work in a relaxed and informal environment, where the ability to manage your time and work load independently is important. You'll often be involved in several projects at the same time, although you may be responsible for a website from start to finish depending on work load.

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16 Jun 2009, by Mike C

Preventing Admin Footer Output in Drupal AJAX Calls

Some administration and debugging modules for Drupal attach their statistics to the end of Drupal rendered pages using PHP's register_shutdown_function function facility. This is great to ensure the output is always available, no matter how badly built the theme being used is.

Examples of modules adding their stats to the footer include the superb Devel package which allows outputting statistics on your database queries (or "Gunk" as its called in the source code), and the Memcache Admin UI module which provides information about the memcache bin usage.

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6 May 2009, by Chris H

Drupal quick optimisation; Caching and APC

What sort of performance increase would you expect to see by simply using Alternative PHP Cache (APC) and Drupal caching? APC is an extension that caches the compiled PHP bytecode hence avoiding the overhead of parsing and compiling source code for every single request.

The following benchmarks were performed using ApacheBench with 1000 requests (50 concurrently). The requests were sent to the frontpage of the site, which is quite intensive in terms of modules ( views // panels // custom modules etc)

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