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Website Optimization Best Practices
Monday, June 1st, 2009 by stevie
Many new projects grow from a small base to a full blown app in time. Besides the pride of the accomplishments the developer now has to care about behind-the-scenes-stuff like page load, caching and effective webdesign to keep or improve the current speed when using the project.
Speed – or to be more precise the lack [...] -
Learn Java by camp fire stories
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 by stevie
Certainly there are many many ways out there on how to learn a programming language. But did you ever hear about learning a new language by hearing (ie. reading) a camp fire story? No? Sure you didn’t!
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Adding a simple pagination to your site
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 by Erik
or: the dangerousness of simple mathematics
I guess many people had this problem before and I think everybody managed to solve this quite similar. Anyways, just in case this is useful for anybody: here’s how I added a pagination to a site recently.
Given you have an array of products for example. Or maybe search results, a [...] -
Checkout a project from svn – the right way
Saturday, February 14th, 2009 by stevie
Do you use eclipse? Do you use svn? Did you ever checked out a new project into your workspace?
If you could answer all these questions with a “yes” you might have noticed afterwards that you can’t do anything with this project because eclipse created it as “general project”, meaning no java, php or anything other [...] -
trac: Solving sqlite-issues when upgrading from Debian etch to lenny
Monday, February 9th, 2009 by stevie
On my dev-server I had to upgrade to the newer version of debian lenny (which will be released as stable version this week).
The upgrade went fine but after it was finished trac (0.11.2.1 ) refused to start, throwing the error message
DatabaseError: file is encrypted or is not a database