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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 >
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 >
Bookakar.com Finally!
Feb 24th
Finally, after long time of work, the first release of my own company: bookakar.com.
I have implemented lots of concepts widely spread throughout the Internet and I truly hope that they all work. Still, lot of work to do but as soon as I have spare time I will share with all of you guys lots of PHP and JS bits and pieces that I hope we, all together, could improve in order to make a great Open Source Resource for everybody to use.
For example, I have developed a set of PHP classes that help PHP programmers to implement GMaps More >
Visual Lightbox
Feb 8th
This post is for those who wish to implement a beautiful Lightbox plugin on their site or blog and, unfortunately, do not have a clue about Javascript and/or jQuery and/or Html.
VisualLightBox is a free application that helps you easily generate online photo albums, lightbox gallery with a nice Lightbox-style overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code.
Just drag&drop your photos to VisualLightBox wizard window, press “Publish” and your own css web site album with beautiful LightBox effects will open in the browser instantly! No css, image editing, javascript, html coding, just a click to get More >
Hip Hop for PHP?
Feb 3rd
Guys, it seems that the days of breaking your head towards how to protect your PHP code is about to end. Following a great article from the Web explaining what happens nowadays with PHP Hip Hop Facebook’s approach.
The open source dynamic scripting language PHP is widely deployed across the Web, powering countless Web sites (including the Internet.com network). Now Facebook is aiming to change the game with today’s release of a major new PHP effort called HipHop.
With HipHop, Facebook is providing a new runtime that is intended to improve PHP use in large-scale deployments. The HipHop effort, which also includes More >
Apple Reveal iPad
Jan 28th
After so much expectation, a new family member of Apple named iPad, has seen the light. Steve Jobs introduced it in his annual San Francisco event and has already produced long queues to book on major stores.
IPad is called, weighs just 680 grams, and is thin, only 13,4 mm. This is the newest member of the Apple that was released yesterday. Steve Jobs, CEO of the firm, on its annual event in San Francisco released its new device to thousands of expectant people. And that, along with the iPhone, which was introduced three years ago, has become one of the More >
Php Frameworks
Jan 26th
I decided to jump over the MVC (Model View Controller) pattern and on one of my linkedin groups I drop a question:
Which one is best?
A huge amount of PHP programmers started to join this discussion writing their personal PHP Framework tastes, providing me with a huge list of Frameworks I would like to share with you. I don’t say that one is best that another, as one of the members said, there is no ‘best PHP MVC Framework, is whatever suits you best on your project goals’.
I know the list could be much bigger, if you know more PHP More >
I'm a 38 year old Web Developer working from Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain. I am Founder and Lead Developer for 
