The August issue of php|architect has been released.
Please visit http://www.phparch.com/issue.php?mid=110 to get your copy.
In this month's cover feature, Dirk Merkel examines techniques that can help you automatize the discovery and correction of bottlenecks in your code. As developers, we often think of benchmarking and optimization as one-time operations to be performed as needed when performance becomes an issue, but there is no reason why they shouldn't be automated tasks that can be performed before they even become problems.
In our other features, Zend's Cal Evans illustrates how rich applications can be built in a snap using a combination of Flex, Adobe's powerful RIA platform, and the Zend Framework, while Darren Cook examines Unicode work in PHP 4 and 5 using the mbstring extension, and Stephen Cook delves into the depths of the cURL extension.
In our columns, Jeof Oyster gives you the lowdown on job interviews–what to expect, how to prepare and what tools to bring, while Simon Morris examines just at what point the focus on building secure applications ceases to be a productive endeavour and starts becoming an obsession.
