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PHP & Perl Growing In The Enterprise

markku — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:34:41 +0000

Java and .NET has always dominated the enterprise but you’d be surprised at this CNET story that suggests PHP and Perl growing at such an impressive rate:

Overall, we see use of dynamic languages as growing significantly. This is due to several large trends. First, there’s definitely a widespread growth of skills around open source programming languages. There’s also a widespread acceptance of open source in the enterprise that didn’t exist even five to six years ago. And there are various respective inherent advantages of using dynamic languages–speed, flexibility, ease of use for developers, low-cost, and community support, just to name a few–that continue to push usage trends upward.

Now this is perfectly good news for the open source community!

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PHP: Keeping Things Simple

markku — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:35:23 +0000

A lot of PHP programmers with moderate coding experience tend to get into the trap of “frameworks”. Usually, a newbie learns more and knows enough to create his own CMS, after which he “discovers” that a framework solves a lot of repetitive coding. Sometimes, it does. But you don’t really need all that.

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Font Squirrel’s @font-face Generator

markku — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:49:56 +0000

Converting fonts to make them better suited for CSS @font-face use has not been exactly easy—until now. Free font library site Font Squirrel has just launched a @font-face generator! Their tool might just be good enough for web designers looking to take advantage of @font-face embedding, allowing for various tricks like subsetting to reduce a font’s file size and make it ideal for web use.

Go on, try it! Just make sure you use a font that allows for for @font-face embedding.

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This barely made the news but you should …

markku — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:18:18 +0000

This barely made the news but you should know that jQuery 1.4 is now out with lots of performance improvements and a few new features.

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If you play a lot with Compiz Fusion and …

markku — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:16:41 +0000

If you play a lot with Compiz Fusion and managed to ruin your config file and now you can’t boot into GNOME, here’s a simple command line fix: gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz

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Can you be a web designer?

markku — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:56:38 +0000

Can you be a web designer?

Can you be a web designer? is a post from: builder2

“Underscore is a utility-belt library f …

markku — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:23:32 +0000

“Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux.”

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Halves layouts come in two options: Left …

markku — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:56:08 +0000

Halves layouts come in two options: Left & Right and Top & Bottom.

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QueryLoader is another javascript preloa …

markku — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:53:30 +0000

QueryLoader is another javascript preloader that produces a stylish effect for your pages. Uses jQuery.

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This WordPress plugin is fairly simple: …

markku — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:05:24 +0000

This WordPress plugin is fairly simple: it creates a name and email field in a form that you can put in your blog for collecting people’s contact information—the WordPress Email Capture Plugin. Should be useful for campaign microsites and similar projects.

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If you’re interested in what Firefox’s …

markku — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:10:35 +0000

If you’re interested in what Firefox’s sibling Camino 2 has in store, there’s a bunch of beta releases that you can try now.

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In Mac OS X, here’s a terminal command …

markku — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:45:06 +0000

In Mac OS X, here’s a terminal command to show processes that use your network connection: lsof -P -i -n | cut -f 1 -d " " | uniq

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Firefox 3.6 will be supporting WOFF, the …

markku — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:43:32 +0000

Firefox 3.6 will be supporting WOFF, the Web Open Font Format that will make @font-face embedding more straightforward.

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Notes on @font-face

markku — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:17:18 +0000

In my struggle playing with @font-face at my personal blog, I’ve learned that right now, it really isn’t worth it yet. Unless if your design really requires it. Here’s a bunch of links I’ve used while trying it out though:

Notes on @font-face is a post from: builder2

$fx() is a compact, lightweight Javascri …

markku — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:40:43 +0000

$fx() is a compact, lightweight Javascript Library for animation.

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phpFlickr allows you to many things with …

markku — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:07:19 +0000

phpFlickr allows you to many things with your Flickr photos using your own PHP–capable server. flogr is just one of them.

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A Smart Bear switches to WordPress. Why?

markku — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:54:07 +0000

A Smart Bear switches to WordPress. Why?

A Smart Bear switches to WordPress. Why? is a post from: builder2

Linode appears to be another good VPS ho …

markku — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:12:54 +0000

Linode appears to be another good VPS host worth considering if you’re growing out of shared hosting.

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Useful popularity algorithm, in case you …

markku — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:20:43 +0000

Useful popularity algorithm, in case you’re building your next big thing.

Recently, the Apache Foundation was hack …

markku — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:14:42 +0000

Recently, the Apache Foundation was hacked and compromised, but managed to limit it and bounce from it pretty quickly. Here’s a rundown of things that happened with their corrective actions. Useful for DIY administrators.

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