jQuery: Chainsaw in novice hands
After 6 months there was blood everywhere... jQuery's popularity deceived us! It is not a…
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Maintenance is not for faint hearted
Maintenance is not for faint hearted. It makes you puke every day. Don't get me…
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Analysis of a queueing setup
Setup: 1. once a day prepare a queue to send 10,000 emails (the number may…
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There is no small job
Some jobs may seem like an oceanic island of refuge; on one side you could…
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Just another reason to hate using others’ code: Paypal SDK for PHP
Recently, I have downloaded Paypal SDK for PHP developers release 1.1.93 which is for "Express…
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Microsoft’s Live.com decided my password was too long: over 16 characters ?!
I don't think it was a wise decision to set the character limit for passwords…
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Why you do not need a heavy-weight PHP framework
This post is (not) for beginners. Recommended reading: Rasmus Lerdorf: PHP Frameworks? Think Again. What…
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Recursive Relationships in Databases
One of the tricky issues in entity relationship model is the recursive relationships. Sometimes an…
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Adaptable Database Design
I had an opportunity to work on a Magento implementation and checked its database. I…
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Programming with too many unknowns in a dynamic language
The aim is to write code efficiently, but without compromising easy debugging, maintenance, and especially…
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