Most computers do not handle page file memory efficiently and often leave information there that is not needed anymore.

You must balance amount of RAM available with amount of page file memory computer creates. This may be difficult and aside from getting your hands dirty to tweak system physically yourself, there are automatic optimizers that will do this for you.

3. The hard drive:

A fast hard drive and its connection to CPU is also extremely important. The faster these two elements are, less delays you will experience because of page file memory allocation.

Given your present hardware configuration, however, you need something that warns you when hard drive is overloaded and needs attention.

Some performance optimizers, like SpeedUpMyPC, help you do this quickly and easily.

4. Starting up:

Over lifetime of your PC, you will find yourself installing a portfolio of programs.

As this collection increases, so will number of shortcuts in your automatic start-up list increase without your knowledge and approval.

As you add more programs that must be started when you switch on your computer, you will see a general degradation of performance and a slow down in boot-up times.

Controlling what you install and making sure that you have cleared all unwanted residuals from uninstalls is a good way of reducing start-up times.

However, sometimes there are so many processes to control and keep track of that good start-up management becomes difficult if not impossible.

Some performance optimizers list all auto-started applications allowing you to stop those that you don’t need anymore.

5. Background applications:

Spyware and other malicious programs work in background and are invisible even to Windows Task Manager.

Aside from privacy and security issues, they cause your PC to start executing tasks indiscriminately thus reducing priority of legitimate programs and causing serious slow downs.

A few performance optimizers help you make sure that you block any of these threats to ensure that your PC is more stable and powerful.

Next week, I will take a look at how these performance optimizers work and what you need to look out for when choosing one for your new tiger!

PHP is easy to use for web development because it has been designed from onset for web environment. PHP has many built-in functions that make web programming simpler, so that programmers can focus on logic of programming without wasting precious development time.

PHP as a language has its own way of doing things, and at same time, has borrowed features from other languages. But for many people, main reason for learning a scripting language like PHP is because of interaction with databases it can offer. Moreover, PHP is cross platform i.e. it allows you to use/develop your solution on multiple OSs.

PHP is one of fastest growing server side scripting languages around and you need to add it to your current arsenal of Perl, ASP, JSP, JavaScript, VBScript, Java...

PHP and Daffodil DB: Together…?

Daffodil has come up with a PHP extension module that makes Daffodil DB/One$DB compatible with PHP. It is a database extension module driver that is required to work with Daffodil DB in PHP. This extension module uses capabilities of a Java database and extends it to your web infrastructure.

By using this extensive module, PHP developers can create sophisticated data-driven web applications, having Daffodil DB as a web database, in a fraction of time and with reduced cost.

PHP extension for Daffodil DB provides a simple, yet effective means for connecting to Daffodil DB from within PHP. The JVM is created using JNI invocation interface and everything runs in-process.

This PHP Extension module will boost open Source activities around Daffodil DB. Moreover, open Source stack -Linux, Apache, One$DB, and PHP; all being open source products, will give an ultimate combination to web development community.

PHP is platform independent, Daffodil DB is platform independent. PHP is free; so as Daffodil DB (open source version).PHP is open source; Daffodil DB has an open source version. So What about using powers of two most promising technologies, PHP and Daffodil DB, together…?

The capabilities of Daffodil DB