One of the great challenges of PHP is that it’s so easy to learn, that just about anyone can learn it with not too much of an effort. While this is great for the number of PHP developers, it also seems to have the effect, that there is a huge number of bad examples of [...]
Archive for 2007
How do you know good code?
Dec 28
Caching & WebApplications
Dec 25
One of the funny observations as a web developer: It’s amazing how many people consider caching bad by definition. If you know what you’re doing, caching is an amazingly powerful tool, which can provide cheap and efficient scaling to those who know how to use it. Know when it’s okay to cache If thousands of [...]
Tip a friend – not so simple
Dec 12
Many online sites such as news-sites and other content providers often have a “tip a friend” option. With this you can mail a friend and tell them about an interesting piece of content you’ve found. The Idea seems quite simple, and everyone should have the tip-option, wright? – no, wrong. While it may offer a [...]
Mysql metadata
Nov 17
If you’re a developer and use mysql, I’m sure you’re aware that it’s a database and it quite good at storing data, but one of the neat things about Mysql (and most other databases) is also their ability to provide meta-data on the contents of the database. Most people know how to use the meta-data [...]
Backups, WordPress & GMail
Nov 13
Backups seem to be a constant pain for just about everyone. It’s something we know we should do, but somehow never get around to actually doing. Since switching to WordPress on this site, things have been different though. One of my many installed wordpress Plugins is the WordPress Backup plugin. It runs once a day [...]
Website Traffic Tracking
Nov 12
Do you have a website? If so please go to the place you store the access logs, and check how much disk space they use. Having a website a few yours old, you’re probably looking at gigabytes, and what exactly is the value of that? Sure keeping track of traffic levels is sort of interesting, [...]
I follow a ton of sites on the web. I go for a morning surf through each and every one of them; I use an aggregator which checks the feeds from the websites, and tell me where to go for news. I guess most people do this – using feeds to find updates and then [...]
Gallery & WPG upgradeded
Nov 8
It seems it upgrade time. Today it was the Gallery and the WordPressGallery plugin that was upgraded. While I usually get it to work (somehow), it’s always slightly scary. URL’s in the Gallery is a mess (and changed since the old version of the WPG plugin), but the Gallery seem to be running and the [...]
kUbuntu 7.10
Nov 7
Just a few days before leaving for South Africa, the latest version af Ubuntu was released. I really didn’t have the nerve to try and upgrade before my vacation, but today was the day. Ubuntu is an operating system – like windows – but based upon (Debian) Linux. It can probably do everything you need [...]
Back from South Africa
Nov 6
The quietness on this site was caused by a vacation in South Africa. I’ve been visiting Johannesburg, Kruger National Park, Durban and Cape Town during the past 2(+) weeks, and what an adventure. We landed back in Denmark yesterday, and with a bulk load of almost 1900 digital photos from the trip, I’ve been busy [...]