Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Releasing cool symfony plugins on github

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

It's been a long time since my last post and probably an even longer felt waiting time for those of you dear readers waiting for code. But wait no more, and check out 3 fresh plugins on my github: weUniversalClassLoaderPlugin Want to use an Sf2 component or any other namespaced PHP code ...

Support symfony at the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards 2009

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

The SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards are on again and it's time to nominate the greatest rapid application development PHP framework: symfony! I've nominated symfony in 3 categories: Best Tool or Utility for Developers Best Project Best Commercial Open Source Project Click the picture to nominate symfony too! Of course don't forget to read and follow ...

TiddlyWiki – a JavaScript only Wiki engine

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Today I stumbled upon a JavaScript Wiki engine called TiddlyWiki. It consists of a single HTML file using JQuery to modify itself. There's also a good documentation MediaWiki on tiddlywiki.org. TiddlyWiki has a plugin system where you can attach customization JavaScript allowing for various new features. It even provides an ...

Stackoverflow.com – a great database for developers

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Joel Spolsky, a co-founder of http://stackoverflow.com recently announced the launch of this great Q&A tool from programmers for programmers. I've taken a look at it yesterday and liked it immediately. Even if you don't have any particular question, just browsing it for fun or broadening your mind is great and leads ...

Fighting spam

Friday, July 18th, 2008

OMG, those registration spam bots are such an annoyance! For this reason I combined my upgrade to wordpress 2.6 with the installation of the Register-Plus plugin to add a captcha to the registration. Unfortunately the simple captcha does not seem to work, it always tells me that my captcha code is ...

How to backup web hosts

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Do you backup your personal data regularly? I hope so. If you don't, stop reading here and go backup your data. If you are still reading this, you are really doing backups of your personal data. But do you have regular backups of your web host data (e.g. blog, forum, online ...

Why some web applications are more usable than others (part 3)

Friday, April 4th, 2008

So I had my local Joomla! test installation and it was working fine so far. The next step was to transfer the installation to my public web host. It's a classic LAMP multi-user host with PHP4 and MySQL. Nothing to expect any problems from...

Why some web applications are more usable than others (part 2)

Friday, March 14th, 2008

After the DotNetNuke desaster I settled down to the more classic way - nice and understandable PHP CMS software. After some consultation I had to decide between using typo3 and Joomla!. Joomla! made the win (I just thought typo3 was a little too complex for the given situation), but it ...

Why some web applications are more usable than others (part 1)

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Just recently a colleague and I had to design a little web site and fill it with some content. We decided to use an open source CMS and since the existing infrastructure contains a Windows 2003 Server with IIS and MS SQL as a database backend, he convinced me to ...