Articles tagged with: Development

Database Ticket Servers

Summary: Using 'ticket servers' to manage auto-incremented unique IDs across multiple databases, a common issue when sharding databases.


Of broken windows and IDEs

Summary: Discussion about the 'broken windows' theory in relation to untyped, case insensitive, and scripted programming languages like PHP, which can hide errors from developers. A proposed solution solution is to use a proper IDE or editor with automatic syntax checks and advanced greps.


The fastest way to load an image...

Summary: Various strategies to speed up image loading on a webpage.


Book Review: PHP Application Development with Netbeans

Summary: A review of the book 'Application Development with NetBeans - Beginner's guide', by M. A. Hossain Toru.


Yahoo Pipes

Summary: First steps with with Yahoo Pipes, a tool for data aggregation and manipulation tasks.