Archive for February, 2007

“document.write” is EVIL ! really !

Posted at 5:29 pm in javascript

Some days ago, our ads engine was behaving the (very) wrong way.Randomly, all of our sites were taking a 1-2 minutes to load a page. It turned out some of our insertionist server was down, thus delaying request’s response for ages, and -afterwards- giving up.

It turned out our banner service provider was using document.write to render the banners on the page. How bad ! Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Written by Stefano Forenza on February 25th, 2007

Doku wiki don’t like google

Posted at 5:37 pm in doku wiki, google, seo

It’s a fact. It’s probably workaroundable but, well, it’s not a good surprise.

In fact I was expecting the exact opposite. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Written by Stefano Forenza on February 22nd, 2007

Xdump: a little piece of my story as developer

Posted at 5:56 pm in development, php, projects

I am slowly beginning to pull online docs and samples for Xdump.

Xdump was one debugging tool I had to develop for the reason that in some situations var_dump() simply is not enough.

Here’s the overview of xdump.

Of course one could say that as good programmer you should never ever findy yourself in such a situation which requires something more powerful than var_dump() or print_r(). I can understand this kind of point-of-view, but I found that real world not always is like that.

Today at work, for example, I had to add some functionality to a zen-cart installation. This is something var_dump simply cannot manage (without driving you crazy, I mean). Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Written by Stefano Forenza on February 19th, 2007

Need for Cache

Posted at 11:04 am in development, php, projects

After going through PhpThumb hell, I decided to develop one serious decent caching library for caching dynamically generated images. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Written by Stefano Forenza on February 16th, 2007