Giedrius Majauskas blog

KomodoEdit Review

I have to admit that Komodo Edit 4.4 is the editor I use the most for editing and developing. What I like is code collapsing/expanding, quite nice syntax help, also SSH2 support, which is a must for any editor. Additionally, it is free (there is a paid Komodo IDE version too). Overall, quite nice tool.
However, […]

July 29th, 2008 Posted by Giedrius | Programming, Reviews | no comments

Codeigniter review - shortcomings part

Codeigniter is wonderful platform, and i am not planing to question it. Everything they say in the documentation is true, and at the moment I am not planing to switch. After I started using it, I am not planing on developing web without it till something better arrives.
However, from my point of view […]

February 13th, 2008 Posted by Giedrius | Programming | no comments

Codeigniter vs PHPCake

I am trying to keep current with state of the art design practices, although I have not coded anything major for 2 years already. I have a feeling that I need to get in touch with current design practices from within, not only by theory. This is a must for staying productive. Now I am […]

June 13th, 2007 Posted by Giedrius | Programming | 2 comments

Newscloud media platform review

Recently I looked for advanced social bookmarking script for one project of ours. One of my picks for this tasks was newscloud . The site looks really nice and it looks fully featured script for social bookmarking niche. However, there are lots of problems with the script itself.
The upsides is its features: Videos, RSS integration, […]

June 12th, 2007 Posted by Giedrius | Programming | one comment

Postgresql and multiple indexes in table

Just a quick note for warm-up. Recent server maintenance and test showed me, that postgresql behaves badly when there are more than couple indexes on the same table. We have some tables that are used in various queries using quite many criteria to determine the result, thus more than couple indexes looks possible (10-15 in […]

December 9th, 2006 Posted by Giedrius | Programming | no comments

Migration report - Mysql5 problems

Recently we have migrated some of less intensive sites to weaker servers, and noticed quite strange behavior: mysql starts consuming more and more memory till it crashes. The loads go up as all the memory and swap space is consumed. We could not track down the problem easily. We tried to find out what’s the […]

April 5th, 2006 Posted by Giedrius | Programming | no comments

Some tips working with postgresql

Here are some tips for working with postgresql databases

January 14th, 2006 Posted by Giedrius | Programming | no comments

The comparisson between Mysql and Postgresql for website development

Most, if not all, common websites that run under PHP and apache use mysql for the database. Mysql is fast, reliable and free. However, there are other solutions, and, inspired by some colleagues, we have tried postgresql in a complex project. The project basis is many types of profiles connected through various relationships. These types share some but not all properties, and have complex messaging and listing system to access each of the profiles. The recoding started in spring 2005. The results at this date are in the entry.

January 11th, 2006 Posted by Giedrius | Programming | no comments

Development tools - Firefox

Personally, I prefer programming using Firefox as the fronted for looking at programming results. The benefit of this over the usage of explorer is that one sees mistakes better and there are better set of tools to evaluate the result or check the design in progress. The first and perhaps most important tool is DOM […]

January 6th, 2006 Posted by Giedrius | Programming | no comments

Links from developer point of view

Content is the king. However, the linking defines the site and page importance for other web participants. Both internal and external ones are important, and there are tricks how to use HTML to your benefit. Common, image, javascript links, the new rel=”nofollow” atribute, redirects, robots.txt - there are variety of linking related things used depending […]

June 6th, 2005 Posted by Giedrius | Programming | no comments