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 Read more…
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. Read more…
Quite often I am hired to perform modifications in other web projects done by someone else. This might be an unmaintained website bought ages ago, or when programmers mess up. It is tough to analyze your own code after couple of years from creation. It is much harder to analyze Read more…
Today I want to talk about really unproductive topic – that is how to code poorly. Or, more exactly, I am going to pick on my unfavorite piece of social site again, that is Boonex. We will talk about how one should not implement user sessions and how to do Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…)