I had read a post at sitepoints about 16 php 5 frameworks. I will not argue the fact that frameworks are good and you should use one. What saddens me is that the key points of comparison are omitted in the post. So, how to compare different php 5 frameworks? Read more…
Switch off debugging output. All errors and warnings should go to logs and not your site output. You might leave it for your office IP’s, if you have a way to see what others see (additional IP’s or proxies). You do not want others to know what happens in your Read more…
My blog post is inspired by a meeting where I had a role of mediator between web developing company and customer. The issues were quite simple and common: increasing costs due to neglected specifications and some badly described features. Customer and web development company are in the same boat, although Read more…
Business management software and websites are a necessity in downturn economy for many small-medium businesses that have to squeeze maximum from their employees and advertising opportunities. However, dedicated business management software is costly and it is important to understand how to minimize these costs and how to avoid pitfalls that Read more…
Voting is quite basic element of any site that claims to be social. This is a basic tool to get opinion of visitors on topics and works as viral marketing too. However, sooner or later your visitors will question if your script is secure enough to avoid fake voting bots. Read more…
On request on commenter, I have taken a look in Elgg platform. We are developing separate inhouse platform now, but it is always nice to look at different code and see whats made correctly and what can we question. Let’s see how this Elgg does and compares to others. The Read more…
For 4 years I work on some image heavy projects. I started clueless. Now, when I look at first works they are not so good, though I have seen far worse implementations of such sites. Such sites have quite a lot common bottlenecks that can be solved using some of Read more…
This post is not about my experience as freelancer, although I do freelance now and then. This post is about my experience consulting companies about their web projects and seeing what they got from freelancers and smallish companies. Here are some of the main problems:
Boonex is an assembly of social site php scripts including chats, forum and the site itself. As we work on several social sites this year, we have chosen boonex as starting platform to build things upon and kinda regret it now.
I wrote a post about newscloud a year ago and about pligg. Well, Boonex is shittier than pligg and as newscloud as well. Why ? Lets tackle some of its problems (more…)
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 Read more…