This is the first of a series of posts, describing how we built the Phalcon Blog (and this one of course). The intention is to showcase some of the features of Phalcon and discuss the reasons behind implementing the code in such a way. I will amend this post with the links of the future posts once I post them.

One of the primary factors that always needs to be taken into consideration when designing and implementing an application is performance. In this day and age of information overload, everything is about speed. If your website is slow (more than a second or two) to appear on the browser, most likely your visitors will leave and go elsewhere. If the application you designed/implemented is slow, it will use more resources (memory/cpu) and thus cost more money to run. Time is money.

It has definitely been a very long time since I last blogged. Just like my previous hiatus, a lot of personal issues arose that would not allow me the luxury to devote time for this blog.

One of the common “mistakes” that programmers (and have been guilty as charged many a times in the past) is not to use the tools that are available to them to the maximum extent possible.

Those that have been following my blog and posts on Google+ know that for the last year or so I have been involved heavily in PhalconPHP, a C based PHP framework, which delivers its functionality as an extension loaded on the web server.