Formatting - Braces - Update

The position of braces in PHP code can be set up in the PHP formatting setting, category Braces(select item Braces in the Category combo box). It's possible to set up separately position of the brace after class declaration, function or method declarat...

10x Performance Improvements in MySQL – A Case Study

The slides for my presentation at FOSDEM 2010 are now available online at slideshare. In this presentation I describe a successful client implementation with the result of 10x performance improvements. My presentation covers monitoring, reviewing and a...

500 Internal Server Error

500 Internal Server Error

Formatting - Braces

Based on the comments under this post the options for placing braces were changed. So this post is not relevant anymore and new information you can find here.
When you select PHP language in the formatting setting then in Category combo box you can ...

Increase your internet speed with Namebench

NameBench is a program that searches for the fastest DNS in your area. After the program is finished searching and comparing between DNS it will give you the results including the fastest and nearest DNS in your area. After that all you have to do is e...

The Shield

As a Christmas present my wonderful girlfriend bought me the box set of the superb TV show The Shield which includes the full 7 seasons presented in a very delicious box which acts a police case folder with cool separators for each of the seasons.



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How to Grow as a Web Designer

The field of web design is constantly changing and growing.
Getting in a rut is often the result of not staying up to date with the latest trends and technologies in the industry. Even if we do stay up to date, many of us at one time or another feel ...

How to Test your JavaScript Code with QUnit

QUnit, developed by the jQuery team, is a great framework for unit testing your JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce what QUnit specifically is, and why you should care about rigorously testing your code.Tutorial DetailsLanguage: JavaScriptDi...

Formatting - Tabs and Indents

Few weeks ago I wrote that I try to improve indentation engine and formatting for PHP files. Some improvements in the indentation engine were done during fixing NetBeans 6.8 and with this post I would like to start a discussion about formatting, which ...

A Showcase of Minimalist Workstations

No matter what your personal work style, an uncluttered and attractive workspace will improve the quality and efficiency of your work.
Getting rid of paper, digitizing your business cards, minimizing your office supplies are just some of the measure...

Bryce Harrington: >1-sec X boot

Looked like we've finally gotten boot speed of X down under a second, as measured by Martin Pitt on his box. (Our objective for Lucid was 2-seconds so this is quite good news.)

Tip: ^ and ! in the shell

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If you use bash - this one is for you ;-)

I’m astounded. So don’t people know about using ^ and ! in the shell?!? Last week I watched an experienced Linux user carefully hit the ↑ cursor key to get a previous line of histo...

Improved JavaScript Validation (repost)

This article was written by me and originally published on February 12, 2008 on PHP Architect's C7Y site.  Since that site is no longer around (meaning this article is currently homeless) and their one year exclusive rights expired long ago, I figured...

Release: CakePHP 1.2.6

The CakePHP development team is happy to announce CakePHP 1.2.6

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Vbulletin Bridge For CakePHP

Vbulletin bridge for cakephp. special thanks to Netrosis (www.syphex.com)

Rolling you own Gallery2 component

Gallery2 is a Media Manager and can be embedded in other applications like CMS. Gallery2 also has an API that we can use to embed Gallery into our Web Apps. Below is only a sample of what can be done. If you find it interesting enough, please contribut...

Using custom Route classes in CakePHP

New for CakePHP 1.3 is the ability to create and use custom route classes for your application’s routing. In the past the router did double duty, managing route collections and routes were just arrays. In 1.3 Router underwent some surgery and CakeRo...

Make updateAll() fire behavior callbacks

For a while now updateAll() would not trigger any of the model’s behavior callbacks.
This presents a problem for a couple of reasons:

The updateAll() method allows to easily do things like field_value = field_value + 1, because unlike other similar ...

Error badges

Hi, today it will be a very short blog post about a feature we just added to the development version of NetBeans. As the title says, this feature is Error Badges - what does it mean? If you have a PHP file with any error, this file can be easily recogn...

Dirty Harry

qemu-kvm-0.12 adds block migration feature

There's a new feature called block migration available with the recently released qemu-kvm-0.12 version. Patches for this feature was first introduced back in November 2009 by ibm and allows you to do block migration during live migration. It works by ...

CakePHP 1.3.0-beta has landed

The CakePHP development team is happy to announce the release the CakePHP 1.3-beta.

How Much Money I Made From Side Projects In 2009

Last years version of this post was the most read post on this site for 2009.  It got 6500 views on Jan 7th, when it was featured on Hacker News and 11k views for the year.  Let's see if we can make magic again!
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CakePHP REST Plugin presentation

At our company we have a lot of uses for a solid API. We can use it to
distribute config files, have servers report in, let customers edit DNS
records using their own interface, etc. Now that I'm converting all of our
legacy code to a big CakePHP appli...

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