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By Giedrius on April 21, 2010
Embedding flash into pdf files have many uses: enriching PDF’s with animation, playing movies, handling forms or creating games. However, there is a huge problem with some flash files embedded: pdf file size. If one embed a (lets say) 200kb flash file into same-sized pdf file, you can get 4-6mb pdf file. This is way [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged flash, pdf |
By Giedrius on April 14, 2010
I am responsible for hiring process both in my own company and in the company I am working with now. And the biggest headache is to pick a right staff for positions that requires lots of training. For example, programmers. The problem with web programmers is that either they are young, solo workers, really bad [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged hiring, programmers |
By Giedrius on January 21, 2010
This week I had a really interesting problem to tackle: one simple script of mine behaved not as expected. And it took me couple hours of analysis for a simple ~30 line script to find the cause. The script on itself its quite simple one – we have 2 numbers and 2 dates, one of [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged concurrency |
By Giedrius on January 15, 2010
I have to distribute a mailing list of circa 150 000 email clients and wondered what alternatives I have to in-house system. This has lead to some research of various options for mailing customers. First there are 3 types of software I might use: web-based services, server based newsletter/mass mailing applications and PC software. web-based [...]
Posted in Programming, Reviews |
By Giedrius on December 30, 2009
Typically, all popular wordpress themes come with html comments to mark endings of div block. This is required for theme developers as it is much easier to see where particular block ends. However, I do not like leaving code like that in production site. Although some claim that HTML comments have no effect in SEO, [...]
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By Giedrius on December 9, 2009
Last month I took over support of one project that inspired this post. It is a website with couple static pages, news and galleries that was created with Joomla. The problem was that site owners could not support it. They are not computer savvy and the internal structure of admin panel is way too complex [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged Programming, usability |
By Giedrius on November 11, 2009
Recently, I had simple but interesting problem on wordpress where I could not find ready automatic solution: thumbnail generation based on image ratio. I use wordpress as CMS for image-heavy site. For example, I want that 3 sized images: For landscape pictures I need 202×133 thumbnails For square (or alike) images I need 156×142 thumbnails [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged wordpress |
By Giedrius on November 2, 2009
Email marketing is still useful for list builders and keeping in touch with your consumers. However, quite often communication is lost in the email Spam box and not read by recipient. How to solve this problem? Here are some tips. Your server and domain First thing I would check is the spammy IP list. Is [...]
Posted in Programming, SEM |
By Giedrius on September 3, 2009
I have read a tweet about PHP programming today that made me furious. “Handling complex logic in PHP is like doing the LSATs after shock therapy” What is wrong with this statement? It moves responsibility from coder to the coding language and that is completely wrong in this case. Firstly, PHP has syntax similar to [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged php, software quality |
By Giedrius on September 1, 2009
Sometime we get a new inexperienced guy in a company as a programmer. Typically, we test them beforehand; however they are rarely perfect when started. Sometimes they are very new to programming or have bad habits from previous programming jobs. Thus it is my goal to help them to improve. And sometimes it gets really [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged Programming |
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