Archive for April, 2007

How to build an absolute url in php

Posted at 5:50 pm in development, php

Today, I was looking for a way to make an url absolute.

Ok, it’s easy. Guess I should think some good excuse for not being to able to do it in 5 minutes. The sad reality is I ended digging on google (again).

I am posting what I found, for (main, and) your reference. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Written by Stefano Forenza on April 30th, 2007

Firebug: avoid errors in other browsers

Posted at 6:10 pm in development, javascript

Small snippets or full-featured libraries - if you develop in Javascript and don’t have Firefox and Firebug

installed - you’d better get them now.

Firebug is a Firefox extension which brings several top-notch inspection/debugging features. You can inspect DOM, change CSS run-time and so on.

Aside DOM, CSS and Net capabilities Firebug features a very good debugger and some very useful logging capabilities. For example in your scripts you could write:

console.log ( "result is:", var );

and get the javascript variable “var” dumped into Firebug console. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Written by Stefano Forenza on April 19th, 2007

Server load: a good resource for the beginner

Posted at 6:10 pm in server

Sometime, when you get a successful site to work on, lowering server load becomes actually more time consuming than strict developing itself. Sadly, and this is specially true for legacy systems, debugging bottleneck is often not easy.

Here’s a good resource page which explains some common tools you can use on GNU Linux:

How to monitor server load on GNU/Linux

 
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Written by Stefano Forenza on April 1st, 2007