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Archive for June, 2010
Yii Framework -Final Decision
Jun 19th
I never felt comfortable with external libraries, those created by other people. Always, since my old times with Visual Basic, have created my own and until now, everything I created was good enough but… Suddenly, after I found that marvellous library called RedBean, I found my self re-programming all my libraries and end up creating a controller and a base model class for a sort of MVC library – I will post it one of these days so you guys can look at it and find out how easy is to implement that incredible library is (thanks Gabor de Mooij!) More >
Speed Up Your Pages With Lazy Load JQuery Plugin
Jun 15th
I would like to introduce you this simple but very efficient plugin that will help us speed up the downloading time of our web pages. I am talking about mr Mika Tuupola’s Lazy Load JQuery Plugin.
This plugin loads the images of a web page as the user scrolls to their position, that is, images wont load until they are not within the visible viewport margins of the window.
How to use
First we need to insert the following references into our code
<!-- insert a reference to jquery and the jquery.lazyload plugin --> <script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="jquery.lazyload.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
And now this few More >
Uri Class for PHP
Jun 10th
For years, we developers tend to keep functions that we find useful into our projects, after certain time they become obsolete or you move one to higher level ways of programming. Some of us, can’t get rid of the code that was once collected-created and I thought let’s see if I post one of my silly old classes what can we get out of it? Let’s make it open source hahahaha.
I propose you the following: Here is my small old good set of Uri PHP functions encapsulated into one class, I know is not a great deal but, let’s see More >
RedBean ORM
Jun 7th
I was breaking my head towards to find a better ORM approach for my own written framework. I used, and was very happy with P.O.R.K., for quite long time but, as most of us, I was looking for something that could improve the speed of my projects. P.O.R.K. configuration is not hard at all, it is compound of a set of classes encapsulated in three files that allowed me to create models in sort of ActiveRecord style and was really, really good when I first started.
Now my projects are bigger, require a lot more of database analysis and those sometimes go up to More >
Zend Server CE Personal Experience
Jun 3rd
I would like to tell you all about my ‘incredible’ experience with one of the new Zend Tools called ‘Zend Server’. The experience was ‘so great’ that it took me six days to recover my self, if I tell you the truth guys, I nearly got into depression.
Have you ever experience a series of ‘impossible things’ that happened one after the other without any comprehension? Well, that happens to me with Zend Server CE.
I am currently running a MacOSX Snow Leopard on a 17 inch MacBook Pro for the development of my projects and I have the built in Apache, More >
Technology Exact Production Costs?
Jun 2nd
Over the past months we have heard right and left about the new comer and so called great tool ‘iPad’. Now, it is the best tool to interact with Internet, to view-share your photos, to blah, blah, blah… Again, the same story. So, marketing wise, Apple is unreal, their designs, their messages, their ‘hey people wait that is something even greater to come’ is remarkable but let me ask you guys, what is the exact point of so much technology nowadays if most of us, mere mortals, dont have a freaking clue on how the hell all those house-work-devices really More >
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