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nodejs, cluster, memcached under high load put to production
Date: 1 Jun 2011 Comments:0With new requirement from our client to implement instant messaging to high traffic dating website we had to consider technology which would let us to get push notifications or something close to it. Doing real push could be somewhat tricky across different web browsers, sockets are not fully implemented and IE would possibly be ok just with long polling. In any case [...]
Read more...Google maps freezes the browser on HTCs with Froyo
Date: 1 Feb 2011 Comments:0Recently I ran into very unpleasant bug, while developing webaplication optimized for Android that uses Google Maps API. This issue seems to be related to HTC Android 2.2(Froyo) based smartphones, only. It’s not a problem caused by incorrect implementing of Google Maps API into the project, I’ve been working on, since the same issue occurs [...]
Read more...Web applications for touch mobile phones – first look
Date: 5 Nov 2010 Comments:0Web sites for mobile phones. Said this way it’s probably nothing new, however saying web applications for forward-thinking devices e.g iPhone or Android perhaps makes a difference. They are not future as many say, they are already here and are already dominating mobile phones market. In our most busy website in US when we lunched [...]
Read more...Why you should not use @ sign in PHP
Date: 22 Oct 2010 Comments:0For those who don’t know @ is error control operator. Taken from PHP documentation “When prepended to an expression in PHP, any error messages that might be generated by that expression will be ignored”. In other words error message won’t be printed out. There are some situations when @ sign might be helpful e.g. include() [...]
Read more...Learning LAMP web developement – 7. User session management and cookies
Date: 21 Jul 2010 Comments:0What the session is for… Session data is suppose to hold some information about one particular visitor during his browsing session or even longer. Session data is right place where to store identification information or user after log in, information about his preferences how or what to show on the website, to store some information [...]
Read more...Resolving conflicts in Subversion (SVN)
Date: 6 Jul 2010 Comments: 1As I have seen many people not being able to sort out conflict state of their local copy of the project I decided to write a little about it. First of all why do these conflicts happen. Subversion unlike for example SourceSafe from Microsoft by default does not require locking of files in repository when [...]
Read more...Eclipse Helios PDT, PHPEclipse, Smarty and some feelings about it
Date: 28 Jun 2010 Comments: 4 so farNew eclipse version named Helios has been recently released. Let me share my very early feelings about it as from PHP developer view. First I downloaded and tried Eclipse Helios PDT version as this Eclipse installation is meant for PHP development. I’m on Linux so downloading, unpacking zip to new folder. Before first run lets [...]
Read more...Learning LAMP web developement – 6. PHP project organization, framework, libraries and third party code
Date: 14 Jun 2010 Comments:0Source code re-usability is one of the most important things if you plan to keep developing applications for longer. All Internet applications have set of functionalities that are common. These are for example, User management, permissions management, CMS functionality, forums, categories, menus, profiles etc. Therefore you don’t have to write a lot of code from [...]
Read more...Testing Smarty 3 beta and RC performance, comparing with Smarty 2
Date: 4 Jun 2010 Comments:0Smarty is template engine used for separation front-end HTML for designers and back-end PHP for programmers. We’ve been using Smarty 2 for years. Now when Smarty 3 is in Release candidate stage, its time to think about an upgrade. Smarty 3 is rewritten from scratch in PHP 5 and its not suppose to work under [...]
Read more...Website hack through tinyMCE filemanager plugin
Date: 1 Jun 2010 Comments:0Few days ago we realized that one of our client website is not working at all. After short while we found that the site was probably hacked. This is a server of our client which purpose is mainly to run older non maintained projects. There was also one old Mambo CMS website installation which apart [...]
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