Tag Archives: caching

My custom Zend Framework ESI view helper

I’ve been a fan of Zend Framework for some time now and I’ve recently become quite a fan of Varnish. As you all know, Varnish is an extremely powerful reverse caching proxy (although the Varnish people prefer the term HTTP accelerator). Varnish supports a subset of the ESI language and I’ve written a custom Zend

Speaking at PHP UK Conference 2011

That’s right folks, I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be speaking at the 2011 edition of the PHP UK Conference. The conference takes place in London and is a must on my schedule. This year it will be the third time I’ll attend and I’m looking forward to it. My talk is called Varnish In

Zend_Soap_AutoDiscover & eAccelerator causes trouble

Last week I used Zend_Soap_AutoDiscover for the first time. It’s pretty awesome, because your entire WSDL file dynamically generated based on docblock reflection. Unfortunately, it all went wrong when I deployed my code to staging. Apparently the issue was caused by eAccelerator. But first things first: how did I get into trouble, what caused it