Linux, PHP, LAMP, The Web in a blog- Android – how to develop directly on a phone
- Android drawable default icons – they are free to use
- Android how to read and write files
- Uncompress on the fly when copying a file from a remove location with scp
- Setting up an encrypted volume on an external hard drive on CentOS
- Linux bash – tar tricks
- Implement Selenium tests
- Using a downloaded package without IDE in Java
- CSS selectors optimisation
- Ubuntu Linux on Acer Aspire AO751h
Category Archives: Web Development
Implement Selenium tests
Installing Selenium 1.0 and write tests with PHP _ The documentation is very good: http://seleniumhq.org/docs/ _ Donwload Selenium RC from here: http://seleniumhq.org/download/ _ When you extract it, there will be a directory with the server and a number of directories … Continue reading
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CSS selectors optimisation
From the last chapter of “Even faster websites”. CSS selectors are matched right to left (!). That means the rightmost selector should be as less broad as possible: you should avoid * and tags as rightmost selectors. The quickest selectors … Continue reading
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Process forking in PHP on Linux
Command Line with PHP _ Introduced with PHP 4.3 (2002-12-27) _ PHP packed with very useful functions: exec, shell_exec, passthru _ PEAR package Console_CommandLine to easily handle arguments and options _ You can do system administration and release management with … Continue reading
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How to benchmark apache+php
This is to see whether you server is CPU-bound or RAM-bound. We have to stress it and see which one of those components gets saturated first. If that is the RAM, we can add easily more RAM. The amount of … Continue reading
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How to make a transparent background/selection on an image using GIMP
http://geekswithblogs.net/TimH/archive/2006/03/20/72797.aspx
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PHP Conference – London 2010 – Summary
Free notes from the PHP London Conference 2010 - http://www.phpconference.co.uk Lost art of Simplicity by Josh Holmes (working in Microsoft) – http://www.slideshare.net/joshholmes/the-lost-art-of-simplicity – http://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2009/04/29/TheLostArtOfSimplicity.aspx _ NIH (not invented here) syndrome - people want to develop everything internally _ The … Continue reading
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PHP – Plurilize
This is a very good post: http://kuwamoto.org/2007/12/17/improved-pluralizing-in-php-actionscript-and-ror/ We have test it in the office and it works great!
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PHP function to get the most recurrent words in a file – it uses Linux command line
/** * Extracts the most recurrent one-word and two-word terms in a file * Filters out some common stop words and you can also pass extra ones * * @param string $filepath * @param int $minWordLength – the minimal word … Continue reading
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PHP – Nice Debug Trace
<?php echo parse_backtrace(debug_backtrace()); function parse_backtrace($raw){ $output=”"; foreach($raw as $entry){ $output.=”\nFile: “.$entry['file'].” (Line: “.$entry['line'].”)\n”; $output.=”Function: “.$entry['function'].”\n”; $output.=”Args: “.implode(“, “, $entry['args']).”\n”; } return $output; } ?>
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CSS Sprite Online Generator
http://spritegen.website-performance.org/ You can’t include animated gifs in the sprite (otherwise they will be still). You can’t include list bullets because if the list item is quiet long, the images under the bullet point icon in the sprite will be shown.
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