Undercover codeāsupporting PHP with non-web tools
Sean Coates (Mar 10, 2010 at 14:30)
Talk at ConFoo.ca Web Techno Conference (English - US)
Many web applications need some sort of support system that functions outside of the normal HTTP-based infrastructure. Sometimes, you simply need to schedule a job that runs at certain times of the day (with cron), but other, more resource-intensive operations, might require you to push operations out to a cluster of cloud servers (with gearman). From creating daemons with supervisord or jobs that run in inetd without any user-facing socket code, to processing inbound mail with PHP, we'll cover a broad spectrum of tools that you can place in your mental toolbox.
Quicklink: http://joind.in/1296

Mar 12, 2010, 13:55 by EliW
A well presented top-level look at numerous tools that a PHP programmer can use to help themselves. Gave attendees a great starting place of where to go start doing research. Ran a little long at the end and perhaps would have been nice to have given some more specific examples and show usage of the tools. But overall a solid talk I'd recommend anyone attend!