My Tech Discovery Blog on PHP, Ajax, Security and Web 2.0
Here’s a cool article I came across showing you how to configure gedit in Ubuntu to become a IDE for PHP / web developers. Tips in this article include ways to customize your display optimially for PHP editing, plugins for performing tasks like beautifying PHP code, tidy HTML, check PHP syntax and much more. It’s worth your while if you’re still looking for a good PHP IDE in Ubuntu.
Link to article: Customizing gedit as a Web Developer’s IDE
Here’s an excellent article on Yahoo on how to speed up your website. The points covered in this are:
Read on at: Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
Here’s a Firefox plugin from to grade your site performance according to the rules outlined in this article:
YSlow for Firefox: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
Heads up! FOSS.IN 2007’s happening between December 4th to 8th at the National Science Symposium Centre, IISc, Bangalore. So mark those days on your calendar if you’re planning to head over there.
The official site is still work in progress, so keep checking the site at the following link: http://foss.in/2007/info/Home
Here’s something which caught my attention - Microsoft actually trying to make it’s bloatware product Windows leaner !
October 13th, Microsoft distinguished engineer Eric Traut went into details on the project, known internally at Microsoft as MinWin.
In his demo, Traut loaded MinWin into a virtual machine with only 40MB of RAM allocated to it. The machine booted with 7MB of RAM left.
Link: Tech-Ex: Microsoft Shows Off Leaner “MinWin” Kernel for Next-Gen Windows
Instead of eyeball tracking for usability professionals, here’s a way to track the mouse movements and click events of a user on a page.
The “movelogger” records the mouse movement a users does on a web site. Just before the user leaves the current page, the recorded data get posted back to the server using AJAX.
The cool thing is that you can “replay” these movements afterwards.
Want to try out a demo ? Check this link: http://pure.rednoize.com/movelogger/
Link: puRe aka Marcel Oelke » Record mouse movement using Javascript and AJAX
Has anyone noticed that all the Pro features at Feedburner, which used to require a payment to activate earlier is now free?
The MyBrand feature in the feedburner accounts section allows you have a feeds URL from your own domain (as long as you have access to the DNS configurations for your domain).
The Item Use and Pro reporting features are also free as of now! So go ahead and get all these enabled on your account now, and enjoy them while they last.
If you’re looking for a way to keep a PHP script running on the server even after the user navigates from the page or hits the stop button, you can use the “ignore_user_abort” flag in the php.ini file or set it using ini_set function.
How does PHP know that a user has aborted a page load then?
Paul explains how this works in PHP at his blog stating that PHP has no way of knowing that a user has actually aborted a page load until it sends out some output to the brower.
“You’ve probably heard of the setting in php.ini ignore_user_abort, and how it allows you to ignore a user aborting page load and thus terminating your script mid way through. Today I found out that didn’t quite mean what I thought that meant.”
Head over to Paul’s article: When does a user abort? - <?paul
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