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Alumni of Note
The School of Music always loves to hear from our graduates. Success stories, new projects and career or performance highlights are all welcome and celebrated. Please take a moment to check out what your former classmates and fellow alumni have been up to recently!
'48 Rosie Irene (Maiden) Bolstad, BA is continuing work on her upcoming album, "Rosie Irene's Best Yet." She has also spent time on two other recording projects including an album titled "Sunday Songs" and a holiday album. She and her husband Bernie live in the Pacific Northwest.
'50 Theodore Herbst, BA, and wife Margaret recently moved from Algona to Germantown, WI to be closer to their two daughters and their families.
'53 Ray L. Holtz, BA, MA '60, retired as Band Director in Greene and now currently resides in Ashland, OR, with his wife Judith. Ray remains musically active by playing in the Rogue Valley Symphonic Band, Southern Oregon Concert Band, and an 80-piece municipal band. He plans to pursue more musical interactions with the local jazz musicians in Ashland.
'56 John Nielsen, BA and his wife, Susan (Paulus) Nielsen BA '58 are busy being the grandparents to eleven grandchildren. They live in Minneapolis, MN.
'74 Gerald Gabel, BM has recently made five visits to Ukraine, initially to interview composers for an article recently published in "ex tempore", entitled "Fourteen Living Composers in Ukraine". In fall 2008 he organized and directed a Festival of Ukrainian Chamber Music with 4 Ukrainian guest composers. Since spring 2009, he has traveled to Kiev as guest composer for the festivals "Musical Premieres of the Season" (twice) and "Kiev Music Fest". Five of his compositions have been performed on the festivals including two chamber works, the premiere of the eighth movement of his choral work "Koren Av Hammerskjold", and two orchestral works ("The Touch of Moonlight Passing" and "Golgotha"). "Golgotha", commissioned by the Musical Premieres of the Season festival and premiered by the Ukrainian National Radio Orchestra (UNRO), will be released on the CD series of UNRO '11.
'75 Michele (Roberts) Stephens, BM is a self employed video writer and producer. She also directs the First Baptist Church Choir in Pulaski, TN. Last year she directed Disney's 101 Dalmatians at the South Tennessee Repertory Theater, STAAR.
'77 Larry Michehl, BA, retired from the Charles City Community Schools where he most recently directed the 7-12 choirs. He taught 33 years in the St. Ansgar and Charles City schools. He continues to live in Charles City.
'84 Mark R. Moore, BA (music minor), recently recorded a live jazz CD titled "Mark Moore with Friends Aboard featuring Susie Miget". Moore performed on the CD along with UNI faculty artist Bob Dunn, guitar, as well as John Kizilarmut, drums. Mark continues to perform and record throughout Iowa. He currently resides in Burlington.
'87 Lisa Pfiffner Eaton, BM, recently moved to Oregon, IL, and is pursuing her MA in Educational Administration at Northern Illinois University. She was on the workshop clinician team presenting "Contest Tips for Success" at the Illinois State Music Educators Association conference in Peoria, IL in January 2011.
'87 John Hagen, BM, continued to perform with widely successful group The Texas Tenors. In 2010-2011, the group performed over 250 concerts around the world. Information on the group's CD sales and live performances can be found at www.thetexastenors.com
'87 Craig Mason Miller, BA, has been on staff as Worship Pastor and Director of Music at Gold Creek Community Church in Seattle, Washington for 10 years. He and his wife Margaret "Peggy" (Keenan) Miller, BA '87, reside in Everett, WA.
'88 Mark Walters, BA, sang 5 roles in the world premiere of "Rappahannock County" 4-12-2011, and debuted with The Richard Tucker Music Foundation and with Opera Tampa in Mar '11. In July 2011 he will be heard in the US premier of "Rockland" by Finnish composer Jukka Linkola. In the last 3 yrs, he has excelled in the Verdi repertoire in the US, & debuted internationally as Don Giovanni in Japan, & in La Traviata in Norway.
'89 Anne (Jackson) Jaeckel, MM, currently serves as Band and Choir Director at Wayne Community Schools. Anne resides in Corydon with her husband Eric Jaeckel, MA '87.
'96 Karen (Norby) Fannin, BM, serves as Music Director of the Little Rock Wind Symphony. She recently conducted honor bands in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Washington and Wisconsin. She and her husband D. Micah Fannin, BA '95, reside in Conway, AR.
'00 Nicolette (Hagen) Inman, BA, recently lead the patron development effort for the Syracuse, NY Symphony Orchestra. In October 2010 she moved to Memphis, TN to become Vice President of Patron Engagement for the Memphis Symphony.
'00 Amanda Schroder, BA (music minor), currently serves as the Events and Individual Gifts Manager at MacPhail Center for Music. She resides in Minneapolis, MN.
'01 Kathleen (Cameron) Melago, MM, is currently on the music faculty at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. She also teaches in the distance-learning program at Community College of Allegheny County. In 2009, Kathy earned her DMA in flute performance from Ohio State University.
'01 Clare (Storkamp) Thornley, BA, was awarded PhD in Historical Musicology from New York University in December 2010, and teaches music appreciation at National American University (Brooklyn Center, MN). She, spouse Paul, and two year old son Vincent reside in Burnsville, MN.
'02 Austin Kness, BA, received the Douglas Burke Memorial Award ($1,000) at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for the Iowa District held in January 2011 in Ames. Kness, a baritone, resides in San Francisco, CA.
'04 Boe Hodnefield, BM, MM '06, Sioux City, is Director of Choral Activities at Sioux City West High School, including the top Vocal Jazz Choir, which for years has earned recognitions for outstanding ensemble and soloists nationally, regionally and statewide, including back-to-back appearances at the Best of Iowa Vocal Jazz Championships.
'06 Christian Anderson, BM, has performed with the Wisconsin Philharmonic and the Milwaukee Symphony, and taught at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in summer 2010. In fall 2010, Christian was offered a position as principal trumpet of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra. He currently lives in Chicago, IL, where he often enjoys performing as sub with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
'06 Anthony Williams, MM, was named Director of Jazz Studies/Low Brass at University of Mary, Bismarck ND, in July 2010. He recently performed on recordings by UNI alums Dave Lisik '98 ("Coming Through Slaughter") and Ryan Middagh '08 ("To Somewhere and Back Again"), and performs "Grosso" on Jorge Sosa's album "Plastic Time". Spouse Leslie Ann Green, BM '07, a former music teacher in the Memphis, TN public schools, plans to substitute teach in Bismarck public schools in 2010-2011.
'06 Craig Woelber, BA, is bass guitar player for the band "Salient" in the Nashville area. Salient and DBD Advertising won a Silver Addy Award in February 2011 in the "Elements of Advertising: Music with Lyrics" category for "I Won't Let It Go". The band performed a 45-minute acoustic set to kick off the Nashville Addy Awards Ceremony.
'08 Tyler Kalina, BM, has been selected as a graduate assistant in the percussion studio at the University of Southern Mississippi beginning fall 2010.
'08 Joel Waggoner, BA, earned his MFA in Musical Theatre Writing in 2010 from Tisch School of the Arts in New York City. He returned to UNI in spring 2011 to teach Musical Theatre History and serve as Music Director for the Theatre Dept. spring musical "Urinetown: The Musical".
'09 Renée Rapier, BM, winner of the Martha-Ellen Tye Career Development Award ($1,000) at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for the Iowa District held January 8 in Ames, was one of three singers to advance to the Upper Midwest Regional competition in St. Paul, MN on February 3, where she placed first ($5,800). She traveled to NYC for the semi-finals on March 1, from which 10 singers advanced to the Grand Finals Concert.
'11 Will Edgar, BM, was recently hired as Vocal and Elementary General Music Teacher at Berg Middle and Elementary School in Newton.
Leslie Ann Green BM '07 married Anthony Williams MM '06.
Tyler Kalina BM '08 married Elly Morris June 20, 2010.
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Rickie Weeks had an RBI triple off Hyun-Jim Ryu after Zack Greinke was scratched from his start Monday because of elbow inflammation, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2.
The Dodgers said Greinke was examined by Dr. Neal ElAttrache and that an MRI in Arizona last week showed no structural damage. The 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner, signed to a $147 million, six-year contract in December as a free agent, received an injection of platelet-rich plasma and anti-inflammatory medication. The Dodgers said the right-hander will rest for two to three days and then go on a progressive throwing program.
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This topic is closely related to Office suites because so many businesses use MS Outlook as their email client. Email has become a dominant form of communication in a relatively short period of time, but many firms do not think about email in a comprehensive manner. These are many things to consider. At a minimum, to meet state and federal regulations pertaining to registered investment advisors (RIAs), you must think about retention policies and privacy issues, as well as archiving, retrieval and disaster recovery issues.
There are also internal practice management issues surrounding email. How will you deal with spam? Is your email secure? How will you integrate email into your office workflows? Can and should you integrate email with your client relationship management (CRM) software? If employees will be using smart phones and PDA's, how will that integration work?
Large firms have a great deal of flexibility when designing an email system, but for smaller firms, outsourcing the hosting of email, the archiving, and disaster recovery may be the best alternative. SMARSH (http://www.smarsh.com/) is one firm that has built a strong reputation serving the demanding needs of financial services firms. Redtail Email from Redtail Technology and AdvisorMail from LiveOffice are other examples of firms offering email, archiving and compliance services to financial service professionals.
A hosted version of MS Exchange is another way to outsource your email infrastructure. If you perform a web search, you'll find numerous firms offering MS Exchange hosting. To give you just a few examples, 1&1 offers full featured hosted accounts stating at $6.99 per month per user. Appix offer plans starting at $4.95 per month per user. USA.NET, a provider of hosted MS Exchange solutions to over 1,500 financial institutions offers a full suite of communication tools at competitive prices.
For those willing to look beyond MS Exchange, Gmail for Business is enticing. For just $50 per year per user, Gmail for Business offers 25 GB of storage, plus IM, voice and video chat. Archiving and e-discovery tools are available at a modest additional charge per user. Gmail for Business is part of the Google Apps Premier offering, so those who sign up also get Google's excellent calendar, Google Docs (documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings), Google Groups (for shared calendaring, shared mailing lists, etc.), Google Sites (Dynamic web pages you can create and share) and Google Video (a private video channel for your business). According to Google, there are already more than two million businesses running on Google Apps, so it might be worth investigating for your firm.


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Carers Week in Chard proves a hit (From This is The West Country)
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Carers Week in Chard proves a hit
CARERS Week was celebrated at the English Martyrs Church in Chard last week.
Carers and the people they look after enjoyed pamper sessions and other activities at the event at the church in East Street last Thursday afternoon.
Mayor Jenny Kenton also joined in the activities.
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The Arizona Diamondbacks have resumed trade talks with the Atlanta Braves involving outfielder Justin Upton, according to Buster Olney of ESPN.
The Braves are said to "be in hard on this," according to Olney. He considers them the likely frontrunner if the Diamondbacks ultimately decide to trade Upton.
The Braves have been one of the teams most tied to Upton this offseason. They've already added Justin's brother, B.J. Upton, but they continue to be in the market for outfielders.
Beyond the Braves, the Texas Rangers have also been heavily connected to Upton. Texas has missed out on several other high-profile players, including Josh Hamilton, Zack Greinke, Josh Johnson and James Shields, and their offense could use a boost after the losses of Hamilton and Mike Napoli.
Upton has been in the news recently, with the Mariners even reaching an agreement with Arizona for the right fielder. Upton vetoed the trade, as Seattle was on his short no-trade list.
Another team mentioned in the chase for Upton is the Mets, but they do not seem a likely destination for Upton because they appear to be in a rebuilding period.
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Jets tab Mornhinweg as offensive coordinator
Former Eagles offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg was hired Friday as the Jets' offensive coordinator on Friday.
Eagles' QB options: Vick, Foles or other
New Eagles head coach Chip Kelly wasn't saying who his starting QB would be, but there are a few clues to consider.
Kelly hire smacks of grand success or colossal failure
The Eagles' hiring of Chip Kelly either will be a tremendous hit or a massive fail. But we can't wait to find out.
Eagles hire Chip Kelly as head coach
Chip Kelly has changed his mind and was named the new head coach of the Eagles on Wednesday.
Eagles sign OT Barbre
The Eagles signed veteran OT Allen Barbre, the team announced Tuesday.
Brian Kelly staying at Notre Dame
Brian Kelly decided Saturday to stay at Notre Dame after interviewing this past week with the Eagles.
Chiefs hire Sutton, Pederson, nine assistants
The Chiefs announced several coaching hires on Friday to join Andy Reid's staff for 2013, including their new coordinators.
Gruden confirms interviews, but plans to stay with Bengals
Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden confirmed he will interview for head-coaching jobs but intends to stay in Cincinnati.
Eagles to interview Lovie Smith
The Eagles confirmed they will interview former Bears coach Lovie Smith on Thursday for their vacant head-coaching position.
Report: Kelly returning to Oregon
For the second year in a row, Chip Kelly flirted with becoming an NFL head coach, but is returning to Oregon.
Eagles granted permission to interview Bradley, Arians
The Eagles were granted permission to interview Seahawks defensive coordinator Gus Bradley and Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians.
Reid, Chiefs were made for each other
Andy Reid couldn't have landed in a more apppropriate spot. Both he and the Chiefs know heartache and disappointment intimately.
Report: Kelly to interview with Browns, Eagles, Bills
Oregon head coach Chip Kelly has interviews set up with the Browns, Eagles and Bills, according to Mike Garafolo of USA Today.
Eagles sign DE Brown, CB Lindley
The Eagles signed DE Everette Brown and CB Trevard Lindley each to a two-year contract, the team announced Wednesday.
Rumors grow tying Reid to Arizona
Multiple reports from around the league on Tuesday are tying ex-Eagles head coach Andy Reid to the Cardinals' job opening.
Vick, who was slated to earn $16 million next season, has agreed to a restructured deal with the Philadelphia Eagles. The quarterback, who was injured and inconsistent last season, eventually giving way to rookie Nick Foles, now has a three-year contract, and will compete with Foles to see who runs new coach Chip Kelly's offense this season.||||||| Vick, who returned to start the season finale against the New York Giants in December because Foles was injured, finished the season with 2,362 yards passing, 12 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. The Eagles finished 4-12 and in last place in the NFC East. Andy Reid was fired as coach the day after the season ended, and Kelly was hired last month. Vick, who will be 33 when next season begins, seems equipped to run Kelly's aggressive, up-tempo offense.
Vick will not practice Wednesday because of a concussion, and his status for Monday night's game is uncertain.||||||| Vick, the four-time Pro Bowl quarterback, was injured against Dallas on Nov. 11 and missed last week's loss to Washington. Vick joined the team in a meeting and was on the sideline for a morning walkthrough.
Vick will start Sunday when the Philadelphia Eagles (4-11) close out their season against the New York Giants (8-7). It's fitting Vick will play possibly his last game for the Eagles at the Meadowlands.||||||| Eagles rookie quarterback Nick Foles has a broken right hand. Vick hasn't played since suffering a concussion during a loss to the Cowboys on Nov. 11.
Vick has left the game against Dallas with an eye injury and is being evaluated for a concussion. There is no immediate word on his return Sunday.||||||| Vick threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Riley Cooper in the first quarter. He had 2,095 yards passing, 10 touchdowns and nine interceptions entering the game.
Vick threw a 77-yard touchdown pass to DeSean Jackson in the third quarter, but that was about the only highlight for the visiting team in Monday's 28-13 loss to New Orleans.||||||| The elusive quarterback matched his career high for sacks - he also went down seven times when playing for the Atlanta Falcons against the New York Giants on Oct. 15, 2006.


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Use your Everywhere Burst Punch to punch away the tip of the egg on the front side of the card.
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More on PHP performance
Posted by Stas on July 13, 2009
After writing the post criticizing Google's "performance advice" for PHP beginners, I started thinking – OK, I don't like Google's advice, what would I propose instead?
So here are my thoughts about what would be good for the beginner to consider when he starts with PHP performance optimizations. Note that I do not say it's the only thing you should do – there are a bunch of articles, talks, blogs, etc. about PHP performance and many of them contain very good advice and go into much more details than I intend to go into. But I think the items below are ones that you should ensure you are doing to the full extent before you go to look around for performance tricks.
Also, from the start I want to say that I work for Zend Technologies and I participated in development of many Zend solutions, both free and commercial. I am going to mention both kinds in this article, where relevant. I am aware that there are alternative solutions, but I will mention the ones I know the best. So please do not take this as commercial advertisement or any claim on relative merits of other solutions – it is not the intent. The intent is to give general direction and some examples, if somebody prefers other solutions in the same direction – that's fine.
Bytecode cache
If you care about performance and don't use bytecode cache then you don't really care about performance. Please get one and start using it. If you want ready-made commercially-supported solution with nice GUI, etc., look at Zend Server, if you're more into compile-it-yourself command-line then you may want to look at APC, or other alternatives.
Profile you code before you start optimizing it! Otherwise it would be like travelling around a foreign city with signs written in an unreadable language witout any map or GPS. You'll probably get somewhere, but you wouldn't have any idea where you are, where you should go and how far are you from the place you need to be. Profiling would allow you to know which parts of code are worth investing into and which aren't. You can use Zend Studio/Debugger or Xdebug for that.
Most PHP installations run in "shared nothing" mode where as soon as the request processing ends, all the data associated with the request is gone. It has some advantages, but also one big disadvantage – you can not preserve results of repeated operations. That is, unless you use caching.
You should look into caching all operations which take considerable time and can return the same result for a prolonged period of time or same data set. That may include configurations, database queries, service requests, complex calculations, full pages or page fragments, etc., etc. Caching expensive operations is one of the most powerful performance improvements you can do.
There are numerous low-level caching solutions – memcached, APC, Zend Server (you can find a good guide to it on DevZone) and others. On top of it, you may look into Zend Framework's caching infrastructure – which support the backends described above and more and makes caching much easier.
Optimize your data
Usually the most expensive places of the PHP application are where it accesses external data – namely, database or filesystem or network. Look hard into optimizing that – reduce number of queries, improve database structure, reduce filesystem accesses, try to bundle data to make one service call instead of several, etc. For more advanced in-depth look, use tools like strace (Unix) and Process Explorer (Windows) to look into system calls your script produces and think about ways to eliminate some of them. You would not be able to eliminate all of them but each of them is a worthy target.
Don't try to outsmart the engine
There are a lot of "tips" floating around about which constructs in PHP are faster or slower than others. I think you can safely ignore all of these tips, especially if you're a beginner. Odd are, 9 cases out of 10 they won't give you any improvement at all, and in the remaining one case it will be either not applicable in your code or not worth the time spent on it. Yes, there are ways to save couple of opcodes and remove couple of lookups here and there – but unless you've already done with all of the previous steps it is not worth it. And some of the advice out there will actually make you code slower, less robust and less secure without you even noticing. So I think for the beginners is better to stay away from trying to outsmart the engine altogether.
Benchmark in real life
Many of the advices I mentioned above have benchmarks as a proof. The problem is these benchmarks always test only a short piece of code. However, you would not be running that one-liner – you would be running the whole big application. This reminds me of a joke about a physicist that developed the model of a spherical horse in vacuum in order to use it to win bets on horse racing. If you want better chances to win than that physicist, test in real environment, not in vacuum. If you have an idea for some improvement, verify that this improvement actually improves your application, not just an artificial benchmark. If this is impossible, use profile results to estimate potential benefit – if you find a way to optimize function that summarily runs for 0.1% of overall execution time, you probably won't do any good to the application as a whole.
Leverage the extensions
That seems too obvious, but I have seen a lot of code that duplicates functions available in some PHP extension. There are a lot of functions in PHP and if you do something that others may have done before, check in the manual. You have DOM/SimpleXML extensions for XML, JSON extension for JSON, SOAP extension for doing SOAP, etc., etc. Do not create custom serialization/deserialization if serialize()/deserialize() would work for you.
If you have some very performance-sensitive bit of script and you can do C programming (beginner in PHP doesn't mean beginner in everything :), consider even making your own extension, it's not that hard.
Avoid extra notices/errors/etc.
Even suppressed errors have cost in PHP, so try and write your code so it would not produce notices, strict notices, warnings, etc. You may want to enable logging of all errors to examine that. Never enable displaying errors in production though – it will only lead to a major public embarrassment.
Use php.ini-production as a start
If you need a set of php.ini settings which would not hurt your performance and not break anything, look into php.ini-production in PHP source. You may need to change a couple of details (e.g. include path) but it's a good starting point.
Use big realpath cache
Realpath cache is very useful for the engine when it tries to find the unique full name of the file from just filename or relative path. By default, it's 16K but if you have a lot of files with long pathes, it's better to increase the size – it would save the expensive disk accesses.
There are probably more things that could be said, but this post is pretty long already, so I will end it here and you are welcome to add your opinion in comments.
63 Responses to "More on PHP performance"
July 13, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Nice article. In my opinion if your application are using database (mysql, postgresql what ever), in first step you should start from it. I saw some applications where database queries just killed them :-) Because someone didn't know how to use ORM and so on.
July 14, 2009 at 1:09 am
It all makes sense to me, nice list.
Only if you get below 100-50ms of rendering time you can consider micro optimizations and other voodoo. I guess the problem is that people read presentations saying: 'we reduced time by 50% changing from include_once to include …'. Although it might make difference to someone like facebook/flicker or other giant, you wont feel it unless your render time is sooooooo small there is nothing else left to improve.
Nice article, bring us some more :- ))
July 14, 2009 at 6:35 am
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July 14, 2009 at 9:56 am
One simple optimization that most people miss is not using count($var) as a condition of for loops.
// Wrong
for ($i = 0; $i < count($Results); $i++)
// Do Something
// Correct
$ResultCount = count($Results);
for ($i = 0; $i < $ResultCount; $i++)
// Do Something
It's very simple, and now you're not counting the size of the stack every time you process the loop.
July 15, 2009 at 8:14 am
T. Crider this is one of the tips which are mentioned in the don't try to outsmart the engine paragraph.
And instead of adding a line you can set the ResultCount variable in the first segment of the for loop which makes the context of the variable clearer.
for($i = 0, $j = count($Restults) ; $i < $j ; $i++)
// do something
July 15, 2009 at 10:35 am
Even better:
for ($i=0; $j=count($Results); $i<$j; ++$i) { // do something }
July 15, 2009 at 11:31 am
Ok, I'll bite.. why is pre-incrementing better, exactly?
July 15, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Again, 9+ times out of 10:
foreach ($Results as $result) {
// …
July 21, 2009 at 6:48 am
@ Shane:
When using post-increment, the value of the variable is stored in a temporary location. With pre-increment the temporary variable isn't needed.
It's not much, but with a couple of 100,000 cycles you see a little difference. ;)
July 26, 2009 at 8:24 am
I have also an example that improvments like using if($var===null) instead of if(is_null($var)) significantly improved performance (for 1-2 seconds). But it was an algorithem for searching one solution in 300! combinations.
September 9, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Yeah, using ++ before a var is always faster. It's one of the improvements that Zend Optimizer makes.
July 21, 2011 at 1:28 am
I love taking sloppy code and making it right :)
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July 14, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I agree wholeheartedly on the whole benchmarking and profiling. I just wrote up an article last week or so on a few benchmarking tools we use and how we use them. It might help a few people take that first step into trying it out. just don;t spend all your time benchmarking and nor doing any coding :)
Also really helpful was your take on leveraging extensions. I realize that I don't know or use half the extensions out there that could help ease my coding.
Great article!!!
July 14, 2009 at 3:13 pm
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On PHP performance: use Zend Debugger…
Stanislav Malyshev wrote some thoughts on PHP performance.
He entitled one of it's performance tips "Avoid extra notices/errors/etc.".
I would like to add here:
Do not add in your application too much debugging capabilities.
Most of you ar…
July 14, 2009 at 11:56 pm
On PHP performance……
Stanislav Malyshev wrote some thoughts on PHP performance.
He entitled one of it's performance tips "Avoid extra notices/errors/etc.".
I would like to add here:
Do not add in your application too much debugging capabilities.
Most of you ar…
July 15, 2009 at 8:27 am
Excellent post, thank you.
We have dramatically increased our overall site performance by caching just a couple of expensive queries :-)
July 15, 2009 at 8:38 am
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July 15, 2009 at 10:03 am
I really didn't get on with XDebug as a profiler, it was so cumbersome to use thanks to having to send the results to a separate CacheGrind tool.
Luckily I discovered XHProf, a recent open-source release from Facebook that provides a lightweight but extremely useful profiler, complete with a web-based interface for viewing the results:
July 16, 2009 at 3:30 am
Note: A windows port hasn't been implemented yet. We have tested xhprof on Linux/FreeBSD so far.
So if you are developed code on Win32 you cannot use this extension for now.
- July 16, 2009 at 3:30 am
July 15, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Caching is a must in any application. I currently use PEAR Cache Lite on my projects and it's very fast and easy to integrate !
Great post.
July 15, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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July 15, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Great tips. Thanks!
July 17, 2009 at 1:54 am
[...] 先だってのPHP高速化に関するポストの導入で、GoogleによるPHPのパフォーマンスTipsが物議をかもしている件を紹介しました。 先日、最初に疑問を投げかけたZendの技術者であるStanislav Malyshev氏が、自身のblog"PHP 10.0 Blog"上で、前述のGoogleのそれに対するアンチテーゼとして"More on PHP performance"という記事を書いています。つい小手先のシンタックスなどを期待してしまいがちな高速化Tipsですが、「初心者向けにまず」としながら、極めて本質的なパフォーマンスチューニング方法をまとめています。 とても良い記事だと思ったので、タイトルに沿ってまとめてみます。(翻訳ではないので注意して下さい) [...]
July 19, 2009 at 9:52 am
Some run servers in cgi mode with suphp so that scripts run in the name of the user. In that case which bytecode cache is the best to be used in a multi user environment?
July 20, 2009 at 5:58 am
–try and write your code so it would not produce notices–
Does it mean that I should check if every $_POST or $_SERVER isset()? It creates a notice if it is not checked.
It is not clear why I should do it. It seems to me it takes time to check if it set or not, while I am pretty sure that it is set even without this check.
And I would mention one more item. While sanitizing an integer in PHP 4 it is enough to use casting $i=(int)$i;
In PHP5 there are special sanitizing filters already, but on my production site it is still PHP4. So I use casting. I read somewhere that casting for integers is very fast and resources' cheap.
July 20, 2009 at 2:12 pm
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July 28, 2009 at 1:18 am
The biggest problem with improving performance is to find a spot where we have most time spent.
Is there any software that can be installed on a production host and later can tell:
which functions spent most time.
Problem is that if you take only one request on dev. server, it will produce completely different results compared to what you get if you do 10 000+ requests on different modules of a server.
Also it might be interesting to have availability to "replay" server load.
For example: you record all user activities(on production) for a hour, then you use this data on development server to replay data after doing major performance changes.
September 11, 2009 at 1:01 pm
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September 23, 2009 at 1:28 am
Thanks for giving some hands on information for PHP performance optimizations.
September 23, 2009 at 7:06 am
Cheers for the tips, never knew about realpath_cache_size or realpath_cache_ttl before :)
November 19, 2009 at 6:13 am
I am use zend frame work.When i surf that site some time site page is going to blank.But in view source i get all the code..
Can any give reply
November 29, 2009 at 11:11 am
Thanks for this post, really nice tips! I made the same experience by avoiding extra notices and errors. Performance was always much better than before.
December 11, 2009 at 7:03 am
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December 13, 2009 at 6:37 am
It was interesting to read about the "smart tips" (I think you can safely ignore all of these tips).
On the other hand – in these comments I found a better way to optimize the for loops.
I have always done this in the simpel (and wrong / slow way).
Therfore looking for hints and tips is not so bad. But in fact its right – most of the hints might not improve the performance.
January 26, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Thanks for this usefull information, PHP performance optimizations is a very important topic in coding. Really nice tips.
February 2, 2010 at 5:29 pm
BTW. if you are squeezed by hardware limits you can consider cache optimizations like this early cache rebuild optimization
February 3, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Great tips. Thanks!
March 24, 2010 at 6:12 am
Performance is very important, thanks for your good ideas!
July 9, 2010 at 12:28 am
excellent post. u have really given very good tips to improve performance
October 15, 2010 at 6:54 am
Really helpful tips. A good site performance is key nowadays!
December 10, 2010 at 5:59 am
Cool guide.Good research work, thanks for sharing it.
December 10, 2010 at 6:04 am
The bottlenecks are the Networks and not the CPU. If you monitor your CPU load, sending plain HTML pages over a network will not tax your CPU at all, the bottleneck will be the network.
February 18, 2011 at 2:21 am
Thanks for this usefull information, PHP performance optimizations is a very important topic in coding, especially for WP!
February 18, 2012 at 5:33 pm
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June 6, 2012 at 7:48 pm
I am use zend frame work.Thx for giving some hands on information for PHP performance optimizations.


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I originally purchased the music only CD as I was not aware that the enhanced version was available. Soooooo glad I got this version. After Forever were amazing yet their rubbish record company (Transmission) did'nt promote them well at all. After Nuclear Blast took them on it was hoped for better things but the band decided to fold. Now their catalogue is almost unavailable anywhere. They didn't really get a DVD concert together which is more the pity! What an amazing and quite original band that too many people will not get to see or hear.
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After Forever is another female fronted group, who joins the ranks of Nightwish, Epica, etc.
This is the first album I've listened to of theirs, and honestly, I was not all that impressed. Nothing really blew me away. However, there are some pros and cons, IMO about this album and group, in general.
The album starts off with a bang; the first 4 tracks are very, very solid. Energize is a fun, hooky song, and honestly, probably the best song on the album. Discord is good too, and I'm not a fan of growling, but he growls understandablely, not like Behomoth where you will need a lyrics sheet or a translator.
After the initial barrage of quality music and songs, I find the album lacking. I hear alot of rehashed music, nothing new. For instance, De-Energize has an opening that sounds like metallica's One, just not nearly as good. A few songs I swear they were going to go into a storyteller mode and start talking about gnomes or dwarfs, heavy rhapsody influence in some of it.
The vocals are good, the women's voice can be very overpowering, especially through headphones, and the music itself is pushed back. Whereas, nightwish, other the other hand, the vocals are more pushed back while the music seems to take center stage.
Overall though, for the 9 bucks I paid, is not terrible, but I would have expected more. Nothing on this album really screams out at me.
Windows Media classifies After Forever simply as "metal," and I can think of no better description for this recording. Any metal fan will most likely find something appealing. As with most identifiably "metal" styles, the guitar, bass, and drums are predictably unified in tight unisons, grooves, and riffs, creating a wall of sound that seemingly harnesses the voices of Nordic gods. When mythologically large guitars just aren't big enough, After Forever refers to metal's great-grandfather – the Wagerian orchestra.
If this description seems over-the-top, it is intended as such. There is no lack of bombast on "After Forever." Although the traces of "classic" metal can be teased out (Dokken, Scorpions, and Dio, for example), and periodically the ghost of Dream Theater wanders the halls, it is Queensryche's melodramatic approach that is most palpable. If you can imagine Pat Benatar singing lead for Queensryche with one of Dream Theater's early keyboardists on board, you might be able to approximate the band's sound.
Lead singer Floor Jansen is in incredible form on "After Forever." Occasionally, she sheds her Benataresque rock voice and veers into fully operatic style, possibly toeing the line on acceptable bombast. I don't like it when male vocalists go there, and now I know that I am not sexist in this prejudice. Live and learn. Most of the time, however, her voice is powerful, distinctive, and feminine – possibly one of the better lead voices working today. After Floor, keyboardist Joost van den Broek also deserves mention. At the inception of metal, a keyboardist was considered bad mojo, and bands like Europe did little to refute this conception. However, Dream Theater changed that considerably, especially when Jordan Rudess came on board. A metal keyboardist now must be both a synthesist and a technician, and Joost's post-Wakeman approach fills both of these roles admirably. I would suggest that he is a key member of the group, a proposition that is only cemented by the searching piano track "Lonely."
Despite having respectable proggish chops, the band is not overly technical. They strongly emphasize melody, and there is plenty to sing along with. Although they employ death-metal style grunt vocals at times, they are used sparingly and, as a result, play a great foil to Jansen's clearly masterful performance. I might venture to call After Forever "pan-metallic" because the band dips into every possible metal genre, including prog-, thrash-, goth-, death-, symphonic-, and even pop- to create a cohesive and relatively accessible effort. If it were released during the era of Queensryche's "Empire," "Energize" could have garnered a level of popularity, but the day of the prog-metal single is sadly probably over.
THE LOWDOWN: If you dig metal, in any form, there will most likely be something about "After Forever" that you will like – and perhaps something that you will not. In my case, the occasional histrionics make me roll my eyes, but I can't help but bang my head and sing along most of the time. It is a shame that, although this is my first exposure to them, this is the last After Forever project, as the band has broken up. Happily, though, they ended on a high note and now I have the pleasure of checking out their back catalog.
It's unusual for an established band to bring out a self-titled album. In this case, it makes sense. Under Mark Jansen in 1997-2002, After Forever was an early developer of the progressive metal sound that combined metal, death grunts and growls, and female lead vocals. When he left to found the great symphonic metal band Epica, After Forever struggled to find a new direction (and, for that matter, a new label).
This album represents an essentially reconstituted vision of the band. It moves away from "progressive" elements such as symphonic compositions, linked songs, or theme albums. Instead, it brings Floor Jansen's vocal talents to the center stage. That's an excellent decision. She can take the simple structures and instrumentation of a song like "Energize Me" and make it work by changing her timbre, projection, and style to carry the song forward.
The rest of the band is pretty standard metal: two guitars, keyboard, and drums. The songs are rockers and ballads, and they're not trying to be more than good songs. I liked the first half of the album more than the second half – - if they'd kept up the quality of the first half, this would be a five-star classic.
All together, it's a good metal band fronted by an amazing vocal talent. Most important, they have decided that this is what they are and are writing and performing as a unit.
I am a After Forever first timer, I bought this CD to check them out before going to their show in Bedford, NH. Yeah, I was one of the 40 showing up, what a shame . Anyway…
This is a pretty much perfect symphonic metal CD.
After Forever's music is a thick but not muddy background of two guitars and keyboard. Somebody did a good job to keep these these apart and away from the voice, you have a medium-high speed background that drives the music forward.
Not that Floor's voice needs protection, it is extremely powerful. More of a direct, no-nonsense voice, always keeping in the "singing range", never shouting or screaming. There are some growly male vocals in here, but much less than other bands with growls.
There is a number of ballads on there and again, After Forever just know how to do it. No bombastic landslide style instruments. Show off the voice, support it properly. Many songs show good variety, including "Dreamflight" which is an 11 minute true symphonic piece.
This is not death or trash or speed metal, I would describe it as a mix of symphonic and power metal. I hesitate to mention power metal at all, because After Forever have "true" power from Floor's voice and they are not at all like some European power metal acts that spend their time posing and fiddling with guitar effects. Speaking of guitar work, there are nice pieces of that in here (although somebody needs his wah-wah time limited).
I haven't checked out the extra DVD yet but since this CD is a clear 5 out of 5 anyway I can as well write a review now.
Overall After Forever are the rising Star in my favorite band list, so please excuse me now while I order their other CDs.


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This readable history of recent U.S. energy policy by a former Carter administration energy bureaucrat who now heads the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum is, not surprisingly, most laudatory when considering his former boss's efforts in the energy portfolio. Looking back at the period from 1977 to 1982 (when oil imports dropped by half), Hakes notes the two- to six-year time lag it takes for federal legislation to manifest itself and offers this kernel to citizens: "Any politician who promises immediate results is probably going to make things worse." He offers seven ways the nation can regain its energy independence, the most intriguing and refreshing of which is perhaps his call to make energy conservation a patriotic duty. Hakes's insights into the politics of energy make the book especially relevant this voting season, and it would be a good addition to larger collections.
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1. What It's Not About
This section is a very brief introduction to what this book is not about. The author mentions about the various open source tools. One paragraph did mention that the code examples were available online, but they weren't. As soon as I brought this up with the author, he did upload the files. Thanks Ian.
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In the next 2 paragraphs of this section, the author mentions about JUnit tests and also on how to use Java's assert keyword. If you are already using JUnit tests you can as well skip this paragraph. Same goes with the paragraph which explains about the assert keyword.
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This section covers some useful tips for using Eclipse IDE. The author explains with screen shots how to enable useful warning, disable useless ones and also promote warnings to errors.If you are familiar with Eclipse, you won't find anything new in this section.
4. Source Code Checking with PMD
As per the web site, PMD scans Java source code and looks for potential problems like:
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The next 15 pages of this short cut are dedicated to PMD. This short cut covers most things you would actually need to know about PMD. The author first explains installing the plug-in for Eclipse, using PMD from the command line and also with Ant.
In the next few pages you will get to know how to write project specific rules using either XPath as well as Java code. For example if you don't want any new Threads being created in your project, you would write a rule to catch the problem as soon as it enters your code. You'll also be able to modify PMD's prepackaged ruleset by overriding various rules properties.
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Question: What was your first professional role?
Question: You were in that Dreamgirls and the recent touring one. What were your experiences like in the two different productions?
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Warren: I got my Equity card doing the 25th anniversary of Dreamgirls, actually with Jennifer Holliday. She actually cast me…at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta during my sophomore year of college. I think I was 19, and that's when I got my card… I promised my parents that I would only do shows during the summer so I could graduate because I knew once I stopped then I wouldn't go back! [Laughs.] And, I have a family full of educators, so that was not an option. [Laughs.]
Warren: Well, the first production, I was in the ensemble, and I got to really dance and just have fun being in the ensemble… Their track is pretty light in Dreamgirls, so I got to watch backstage a lot, and I sat backstage every single night and watched Jennifer Holliday do "And I Am Telling You," and I just soaked it up. And, I remember one time I was in the wrong place at the wrong time… [Laughs.] She came offstage at the end of that number, and she literally just grabbed me, and I'm like a 19-year-old little tiny thing, and she grabbed me. And, she grabs whoever is the closest person near her because she puts so much energy out into that number, so when she gets offstage, she just grabs a person and hugs them, and that was me that day. [Laughs.] It was very crazy! So that was what it was like during that, and then when I was blessed enough to be cast as Lorrell in the tour, that was just insane because we knew this was going to be kind of like a revival of it, and we were starting at the Apollo Theater, and to do that show on the Apollo stage, I can't even explain what that felt like. It was just amazing, and I was elated and just so excited. The energy from that building is just ridiculous, so that was amazing. And then touring with it and not knowing whether or not we were going to make it back to Broadway. It was just a really amazing ride for me because it was my first real, real, real lead as an Equity actress, and I was kind of still out of college… Dreamgirls, in general, is singing an opera, so I had to learn how to pace myself. There were all these lessons that I had to learn just to keep my voice up and to do eight shows a week, and I was not a natural soprano, so it was a big task in that role. It was almost like having a master class because I had to learn so much in such a short period of time. Just to keep up was crazy. [Laughs.] And, now I [can sing] soprano because of that. [Laughs.]
Warren: It is a rock and soul album. I kind of got the rock 'n' roll music bug because I toured with Trans-Siberian Orchestra my senior year of college, and they're a big rock 'n' roll Christmas arena tour. I did a couple of shows with Steven Tyler from Aerosmith, then I completely got the bug, and I was like, "This is amazing. I love this." So my six months off between the out-of-town trial and the tour, I decided to get a band together and work on an EP, and that's what I did… So it's really great to do something that people don't expect from me because I do theatre. And, this is my other love—rock and soul. I'm a huge Tina Turner fan. I love it.
Question: What was your first professional role?
Question: You were in that Dreamgirls and the recent touring one. What were your experiences like in the two different productions?
Question: Where would you like to see your career go from here? What's your dream path?
Warren: I would love, love, love to get back into my music. As soon as this starts slowing down a little bit, I'm going to get back into my music and be with my band and do shows and hopefully do a tour somewhere. I have such a love for music, but I also have such a love for acting. I went to school for theatre, so getting into TV and film is definitely my next step. I still want to stay in theatre because theatre has been so great to me, and I love it. There's nothing like live theatre, but definitely TV and film and my music are my next real concentration.
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Dionne shows you how to get your music off your ipod and back onto your computer.
How To: Use your PC as a phone
Dionne shows you how to use your PC as a phone
How To: Make your own Internet Radio Station
Dionne shows you how to set up and broadcast your very own internet radio station
How To: Programme a universal remote
Dionne shows you how to programme a universal remote control.
How To: Remove Spyware from your PC
Dionne shows you how to remove dangerous spyware from your computer.
How To: Transfer VHS to DVD
Dionne shows you how to transfer you old VHS to DVD
How To: Upgrade the Graphics Card
Dionne shows you how to upgrade the graphics card in your PC
How To: Convert negatives into digital photos
Dionne shows you how to convert your old negatives into digital photos so that you can store them on your computer and keep them forever.
How To: Upgrade your Hard Drive on the PS3
Dionne shows you how to upgrade the hard drive on your Playstation 3. It's easier than you might think.
Focus Group: Computer Gadgets
Jon, Suzi and Jason present 3 of the latest computer gadgets to this week's focus group who decides which is best
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January 6, 2013 at 7:33 am
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