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https://www.appfog.com/
PaaS offering for a wide range of platforms, free up to 8 servers, 2G of ram, 100M database. Supports, PHP, Node.js and more.
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https://github.com/ichikaway/cakephp-mongodb
The CakePHP MongoDB plugin. Include the plugin, create a model, flag it to be sent to Mongo, and boom, your'e in business. Simple, elegant.
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http://nuts-and-bolts-of-cakephp.com/2012/07/18/cakephp-mongodb-introduction/
Useful intro to using MongoDB with CakePHP. Works quite nicely, load the plugin, specify your model should use Mongo, and boom, you're in business.
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http://raymorgan.net/web-development/how-to-obfuscate-integer-ids/
Interesting article on how to obfuscate integer IDs by creating secure hashes which can be verified. Produces long hashes, but they are tamper proof.
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https://github.com/CakePHP-Copula
An API framework for CakePHP. They've implemented the Twitter API, and a handful of others. Very cakey, fits into the whole CakePHP approach very well. Not sure if it'll actually be that useful or not.
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http://kohanaframework.org/
A supposedly fast PHP framework, at least fast to build. Don't know much else.
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http://fuelphp.com/
A PHP framework, meant to be fast to build. Don't know much. Hat tip Richard Flett.
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http://www.spoon-library.com/
A PHP5 library that claims to be fast, easy to learn and fun. By the folks who make a twitter PHP class.
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http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html?_=1344537066
Useful article about exporting data from revelation into a CSV ready for import into secrets, an Android password manager. Useful PHP script Revtrans which can decrypt and read the native revelation file format. Very handy.
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http://msgpack.org/
Interesting data serialisation format, alternative to json / PHP's serialize, etc. Designed to be fast and small.
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http://leesbian.net/updating-magento-13x-to-php-53-compatibility
A short list of code changes required to make earlier Magento versions PHP 5.3 compatible. Very useful. Untested.
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http://www.elevatedcode.com/articles/2007/12/05/replication-monitoring-with-monit/
Clever approach to monitoring mysql replication with monit. Ruby script checks replication is running and then touches a file, monit in turn monitors that file's timestamp and if it gets out of date, sends an alert. Sort of like a dead man switch. Clever.
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http://www.yireo.com/software/magento-extensions/newrelic
A Magento extension to integrate with NewRelic's monitoring system. I suppose it's a Magento wrapper for the NewRelic PHP library.
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https://beeznest.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/memcached-to-store-php-sessions/
Excellent article describing in depth how to have PHP store session data in memcached and the differences between the memcache and memcached implementations in PHP. Very useful.
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http://www.ndot.in/products/ndotdeals-opensource-groupon-clone/
Groupon clone, claims to be open source but blatantly is not, pro version starts at $145, premium is "contact us" pricing.
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http://clonedealaday.com/
Seemingly simple Groupon clone script for $69 USD, paid in Brazilian Real's. :-)
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http://uniprogy.com/
Good loooking Groupon clone with a seemingly low $200 price tag but a huge list of extra paid-upgrade modules.
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http://groupscript.net/
One of the many sites that appear to offer identical groupon clone scripts for $400.
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http://wroupon.com/
Nice(ish) looking groupon clone, $350. Appears to be built on PHP / MySQL. Looks like a unique product, unlike many of the others that appear to be clones of each other.
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http://www.agriya.com/groupon-clone
A groupon clone site from Agriya, an Indian software company. No pricing information readily available online. Featured in the New York Times apparently, hap tip Glyn. Built on CakePHP.
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http://cloudcontrol.com/
Scalable PHP PaaS service. Based on the concept of "boxes", which handle 2 simultaneous requests each, and can scale up and down dynamically. So 12 concurrent requests equals 6 boxes. Strange, but potentially cost effective for traffic peaks.
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http://orchestra.io/
PHP PaaS provider based in Ireland, acquired by Engine Yard.
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https://phpfog.com/
PHP cloud hosting. Very slick architecture. Custom managed EC2 nodes deployed behind varnish caches and nginx load balancers. Fairly reasonably priced.
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http://kencochrane.net/blog/2011/06/django-hosting-roundup-who-wins/
Article mentioning a selection of django hosting providers that provide "managed hosting". Very useful, some great companies.
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https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=250673
Very helpful thread that explains a simple one-line fix to curl problems with the PHP AWS SDK on Ubuntu 8.04 (slice1).
