When I moved jobs, like most people I had to learn a new language. Lucky for me my boss was one from the modern era who was capable to understand that learning a new computer language for a programmer is not a major obstacle. I’ve had so many interviews in the past where they ask “so do you know xxx language”, and my reply being “no, but it wont take me long”, and still they refuse to hire me because of time needed to train. Nonsense! It takes most programmers at most a week to have mastered a new language!

Anyway rant aside, the new language I learned was PHP, in a sense learning php is more like learning a new framework; Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP commonly known
as LAMP. After using it for a short while I realised all the time I had spent in the darkside was wasted! Here is why:

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One of the latest advancements in affiliate marketing is a new model titled Revenue Share. Quite simply it encourages affiliates to work together in order to gain a sale, the commission made from that sale or lead is then divided between the affiliates that helped. The rest of this post will cover how it all works at a more technical level.
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This year I’ve been involved with a couple of projects that required aggregating data from several different companies XML feeds. Initially the XML calls were made one after the other in a traditional sequential manner. However it soon became apparent that this was not really feasible as each search took in the region of 10 to 20 seconds to complete and with 4 or 5 companies this was increasing the wait time for the user to over a minute.

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It’s a topical discussion, one that I hear too often. Not that it’s a bad thing, I like bringing things into the world and to keep things simple I thought a blog would require less maintenance. Happy days.