Posts made in October, 2007

• Gedit as a PHP IDE

  Linux
  

  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 [...]

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• Rules for High Performance Websites

  Techniques
  Here’s an excellent article on Yahoo on how to speed up your website.  The points covered in this are: Make Fewer HTTP Requests Use a Content Delivery Network Add an Expires Header Gzip Components Put Stylesheets at the Top Put Scripts at the Bottom Avoid CSS Expressions Make JavaScript and CSS External Reduce DNS Lookups [...]

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• FOSS.IN / 2007

  General Stuff
  

  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

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• Windows getting Leaner?

  General Stuff
  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. [...]

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• Record mouse movement using AJAX

  Ajax
  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 “moveloggerâ€? 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 [...]

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• Feedburner Pro features now Free?

  General Stuff
  

  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 [...]

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• PHP >> ignore_user_abort

  PHP
  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 [...]

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