Parallels Desktop 4.0 Closed Beta

Parallels lässt auch mal wieder von sich hören. Für mich allerdings uninteressant. VMWare Fusion hat sich gegenüber Parallels um einiges stabiler erwiesen. Von den Features her hat es Parallels ja schon länger überholt…

„Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac Features:

More features will be added soon! Bookmark this page in your web browser to stay up-to-date on the latest Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac Beta developments!
Enhanced Performance

The new generation high performance lightweight hypervisor engine allows Parallels Desktop for Mac beta to deliver the industry’s best performance with:

* 2-way SMP per VM (4-way to come)
* 8 GB RAM per VM
* 64-bit guest OS support
* Up to 2 TB virtual hard drives inside a VM
* Full ACPI support

Seamless OS Integration

More of today’s leading OSs means greater flexibility and a more seamless user environment.

* Run Mac OS X Server as a Guest virtual machine
* Experimental Snow Leopard support
* Migration support for VirtualBox VMs via Parallels Transporter
* Support for several Boot Camp partitions on external hard drives

Advanced Video and 3D Graphics

The first to bring Windows-only 3D graphics to the Mac desktop, Parallels continues to drive enhanced performance and 3D support.

* Includes experimental support for DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL 2.0, including DirectX Pixel Shaders 2.0 support
* Up to 128 MB video memory support

Enhanced Enterprise and Developer Support

Smoother, more flexible development for seamless inclusion into an enterprise’s infrastructure and IT environment.

* SDK and open API support to extend manageability
* Scripting support for automation
* Command Line Interface support
* PXE support to boot from the network
* Virtual Machine templates“

Auf der Suche nach dem perfekten PHP Application Framework

Ich habe mich in letzter Zeit etwas nach Frameworks für die Applikationsentwicklung in PHP umgesehen. Hintergrund ist die anstehende Entwicklung einer etwas grösseren Anwendung. Das Framework sollte den MVC-Pattern umsetzen, eventuell Hilfestellungen bei Routine-Tasks geben, aktuell sein (weiterentwickelt werden) und vor allem sollte die verfügbare Dokumentation umfangreich sein.

Nach kurzer Zeit musste ich feststellen, dass die Auswahl sehr gross und unübersichtlich ist. Bisher habe ich mich nicht entschieden. Vielleicht hat der eine odere andere Leser Erfahrungen mit einem dieser Frameworks und möchte sie mit mir teilen? Ausserdem mag ich mit diesem Überblick die Leute unterstützen, die vor einer Ähnlichen Entscheidung stehen.

Es handelt sich hierbei wirklich nur um einen Überblick und keine Bewertung. Es werden die mir bekannten Frameworks mit der Beschreibung von ihrer Webseite verlinkt.

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Configuring Apache for maximum Performance

„Apache is an open-source HTTP server implementation. It is the most popular web server on the Internet. The December 2005 Web Server Survey conducted by Netcraft [1] shows that about 70% of the web sites on Internet are using Apache.
1. Apache server performance
Apache server performance can be improved by adding additional hardware resources such as RAM, faster CPU etc. But, most of the time, the same result can be achieved by custom configuration of the server. This article looks into getting maximum performance out of Apache with the existing hardware resources, specifically on the Linux systems. Of course, it is assumed that there is enough hardware resources, especially enough RAM that the server isn’t swapping frequently. First two sections look into various Compile-Time and Run-Time configuration options. Run-Time section assumes that Apache is compiled with prefork MPM. HTTP compression and caching is discussed next. Finally, using separate servers for serving static and dynamic contents are being discussed. Basic knowledge of compiling and configuring Apache, and Linux are assumed. „

Configuring Apache for maximum Performance

Configuring Apache for maximum Performance

XML.com: Tuning AJAX

„Unless you live under a rock, you’ve heard about and likely even used AJAX. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is becoming an increasingly pervasive deployment methodology, which necessitates that people start to both understand how it works and actually consider it more seriously as an enterprise-level development tool. To that end, I will try to illustrate one method of benchmarking your AJAX applications as well as point out some of the major performance pitfalls I have encountered while developing AJAX components and applications.“

XML.com: Tuning AJAX

XML.com: Tuning AJAX