Introduction I am not under the impression that what we are doing here is rocket science, but might be nice to share anyway. Lets first elaborate a bit on the situation at hand. At my current client Backbase is used in a progressive enhancement kind of way: <!– Backbase Library –> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”core/4_3_1/engine/backbase.js”></script> <!– [...]
In a discussion on Yammer it seems that merely 30 years ago the vision was to have 30 engineers around the globe writing services that others would use. The concept might be working if you increase the number of engineers 10 to 100 fold. Most important however it seems that even though we discuss a [...]
Currently I have the luxury to be back with my roots and do some full-time software developer, rather than work on three projects at once spending more time on managing, discussing and commuting. As there seems to be a tendency in developers careers to shift out technology at some time and become project manager or [...]
After having written a Yammer Extension for mediawiki (http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-yammer-tag-extension/) which I got some really good responses to, it was time to look around for new challenges. So on to the new plugins we write and are about to write; Just last week we decided it would be good to implement some reward and recognition model [...]
Do you know the feeling that some four weeks after you finish a project you get that moment of reflection. You decide what you have learned, what you seriously never need to do ever again, or just be amazed at how things came and went and in the end there is something there but you [...]
As a frequent web frontend developer on all types of projects (from flex, backbase, jquery, to php and java based backend projects), i feel there is a lack of industrialization. Within the ant-4-webdevelopers google code project I try to create a common set of ANT scripts that should be usable to various frontend developers looking [...]
Are you into PHP development and curious how you can make your life easier when publishing your website? Do you sometimes worry you might forget to remove debug lines? Or you spend unnecessary time to double check you haven’t accidentally uploaded ‘phpinfo.php’ or some local development powerscripts that shouldn’t be online? A first step in [...]
Mod security can be a hassle when trying to work with wordpress or bbpress. The main problem is the forms using parameters in their action, which is blocked by mod_security with a nice error page. With some minor javascript and php you can however easily write yourself a widget to workaround and get the wordpress [...]
While building an intranet application I was in need for adding some performance to my user based queries and logic. After considering and discarding to write a stream_wrapper for the session:// space and use if with a File backend, I came across the registry backend by Sameer Parwani, and noticed how fairly easy it was [...]