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By Giedrius Majauskas on February 2, 2012
It is not a big secret that I like to try new PHP frameworks. Yii framework was on my list of things I should try, so I have experimented with it a bit. To summarize, I have switched back to Cake PHP. But let me explain further. The framework itself is quite good, and documentation [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged frameworks, php, yii |
By Giedrius Majauskas on December 4, 2010
Bitnami stack is a package of software that is required to run specific web application separately. Typically, web applications require server programs preinstalled and running : web server ( apache usually), database server and various components. Bitnami “Stack” is free pre-assembled packages, that can be installed and launched on your own PC, home server, virtual [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged Bitnami, ruby |
By Giedrius Majauskas 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 Majauskas 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 Majauskas 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 Majauskas 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 Majauskas 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 Majauskas 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 Majauskas 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 Majauskas 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 |
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