Jan

2009

Beautiful Indie Game Trailer

I know this doesn’t really fit into the general theme of this site, but I thought this was really cool and wanted to share it anyway. Not much else to say, so enjoy!

Blueberry Garden (sneak peak trailer) from Erik Svedäng on Vimeo.

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Jan

2009

Workaround for Ubuntu 8.10 mouse bug

Ubuntu 8.10 has a massive bug in the xorg window code at the moment. Originally reported in November when 8.10 shipped, the lack of action on this is kind of unusual for the generally excellent Linux community.

However I’ve worked out a minimally intrusive hacktastic workaround.

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Dec

2008

Quickie – Aptana 2009 Roadmap Survey

Just a quick post letting everyone know that we’re asking the developer community for their input on the Aptana Studio…. what do you like, what do you hate, and what do you want. Per the survey page:

We want to make Aptana Studio better for YOU.

To do that, we need to understand what you do, how you work, what you like about Studio, and what drives you nuts. Whether you’re a regular Studio user or you’ve only tried it once or twice, we want to know what’s working for you and what’s not, what features you can’t find, and what features you can’t live without.

From now until January 10, you can help us determine our direction for the next year and beyond by taking a few minutes to give us your thoughts.

Take a few minutes and share your thoughts:
2009 Aptana User Survey

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Oct

2008

PHP Optimization and Scalability – Slides and Source

I gave a talk for the San Jose PHP meetup last night on PHP scalability and optimization. Everything from good code (and bad code) to infrastructure (including Cloud Hosting with Aptana) was covered.

If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments, I’ll respond to them as soon as I can!

Enjoy.

Source Code

Scalability In PHP

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Oct

2008

Server-Side JavaScript Talk Slides & Source

It’s well overdue, but I’ve finally managed to get this stuff up. Here are the slides from my presentation on Server-Side JavaScript, as well as the source code for the Jaxer REST API provider and consumers that I wrote.

I will do a post in the near future going over the code, and some of the configuration tweaks that I made, but hopefully this will hold you over until then.

Source Code

Server-Side JavaScript

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Quickies & Cool Stuff

Web Developer Collection: Packaged up Firefox extensions

Mozilla announced a new feature for add-ons today: collections. It also looks like they’re getting the ball rolling with several useful collections, such as the Web Developer Collection. It includes all sorts of goodness like Firebug, ySlow, GreaseMonkey, ColorZilla, and many more. Well worth a quick visit.
FireFox Web Developer Collection

MooTools ScrollSpy – Surprising Useful JS Plugin

David Walsh has put together a really handy plugin for MooTools called ScrollSpy. What impressed me the most was the automatic display of a “Return to Top” link on your page once you’ve scrolled beyond a certain boundary. There are also a handful of other neat demos worth checking out. Sounds simple, but if you think about it, there are tons of great applications for this plugin.
http://davidwalsh.name/scrollspy

jQuery vs. MooTools – Finally, a Useful & Subjective JS Framework Comparison

It’s been said a thousand times I’m sure, but picking the right JavaScript framework is a pain. There are all sorts of biased arguments for one vs. another, but there’s really nothing subjective out there… until now. Arguably, jQuery is probably the most popular JS framework out in the wild, but that doesn’t always mean it’s the best choice. What you choose should really depend on what you’re trying to do. Aaron Newton of Clientcide has put together a really impressive look at jQuery vs. MooTools, which doesn’t categorically say one is better than the other, but, rather, goes into detail about why one framework is better than the other based on your needs. Definitely worth a read:
www.jqueryvsmootools.com

Doctrine – PHP Object Relational Mapper

ORM is certainly a very popular concept these days, but I haven’t really come across any PHP implementations that I found worth-while. Sure, big frameworks like CakePHP may have ORM functionality, but I’m not a fan of huge frameworks. I’ve also dabbled in my own implementations, but never got too far, as I’m not a fan of re-inventing the wheel. At any rate, I stumbled across Doctrine by accident (good ol’ RSS readers), and am impressed, mostly because it’s something that can be integrated into existing projects / frameworks.
www.doctrine-project.org

Preloaders.net – Fantastic Preload Image Generator

Ajaxload.info used to be the site of choice when it came to generating preloader images… unfortunately, I think it’s been bested. Preloaders.net allows you to generate not only the standard set of preloaders, but even 3D ones! You also get much more control (size, speed, etc.) and the quality of the final images is impressive. Definitely worth checking out.
www.preloaders.net