August 2007
Target Practice - A Workshop in Tuning MySQL Queries - Jay Pipes
(via)I gave a tutorial at OSCON last week on tuning MySQL queries, the EXPLAIN statement, the optimizer, and benchmarking. I've gone ahead and put the tutorial materials online now:
MySQL Performance Blog » Landscape of Transactional Storage Engines for MySQL
(via)talks about current state behavior and performance properties of Innodb, Falcon, PBXT and SolidDB Storage Engines
May 2007
Premature Optimization » Zend_Search_Lucene talk slides
by 2 othersI think that my main goal, which was to show how easy it is to start indexing existing content, was acheived and several people came to me and said they thing Zend_Search_Lucene is one killer component.
February 2007
Migrating to PHP 5.2.1 Slides - iBlog - Ilia Alshanetsky
(via)The slides for the Migrating to 5.2.1 from the Vancouver conference are now available, they can be found here:
November 2006
A Day In Paradise » ZendCon / PHP Conference Slides UP
My ZendCon and PHP Conference slides are up.
Moving to PHP5 with Style
Planning a PHP4 -> PHP5 platform Rewrite
Advanced PHP Tools (tutorial)
June 2006
March 2006
George's Talks
I have given a number of presentations, both at conferences and internally at various jobs. Where possible I've made available both the presentations themselves as well as written notes available.
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