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  Serving static content from Cloud Files using Ruby I recently moved my site skylinesaustralia.com from hosting in the states back to hosting in Australia and while it is reasonably affordable, one thing I can't afford is a burst in bandwidth. I average 600GB outbound per month and I only have 600GB allowance with my server, so I decided to serve my gallery and post attachment images from Rackspaces Cloud Files service. The Cloud Files service is much like Amazons S3 service, only faster and for a similar amount of money.

  5 months on
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  Dont get caught by differing super globals in PHP Recently I discovered that scripts I had written on my Mac would not run on our Linux servers. It wasn't until I had a good look at the contents of the $_SERVER super global that I noticed a few anomalies with the contents of mine compared with others that I have been used to for so long...

  7 months on
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  Making sure you only have one instance of a script running // One of my tasks in my current job is to build large indexes for our Sphinx powered search engine. This sounds pretty simple, but when you have 2,000,000 records that have, in turn, one-to-many relationships with other records, you can be processing a huge amount of data at any given time. The script that I [...]

  7 months on
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  Sphinx Full Text Search, What I have learned For those of you that do not know what Sphinx is, check out their site here. I started writing a post on Sphinx a few weeks ago, only to realise that the way I was approaching Sphinx was wrong and that I had to rethink my strategy. Anybody that follows my personal blog will [...]

  9 months on
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  Setting up a Facebook style link preview image Have you ever noticed in facebook when you add a link that it generates a list of images from that link so you can choose one to display? It can really help to give an idea of what the link is about and helps to brighten things up by adding some colour. I’ve recently implemented similar [...]

  12 months on
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  Milk framework example - martialartslife.net Yesterday the first fully functional site using the new Fliquid Studios Milk framework was lanched, www.martialartslife.net. This site is quite basic as far as the capabilities of the framework go and will no doubt implement some of the more advances features further down the track. Some of the base features it does make good use of [...]

  ~1 year on
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  Creating a virtual development server using Virtualbox For those of you who read Installing Fedora 10 on Windows XP using VirtualBox, this is another post along the same lines as that one, except this one is for configuring your virtual machine as a development server for when you are forced to code on your Windows host. I am a bit of a snob [...]

  ~1 year on
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  Javascript Event Library Updated Just a small post to announce that the Javascript Event Library has been updated with a few new methods and smaller size (reduced variable length, removed semicolons). The updated code can be viewed and downloaded via our Projects page. If you encounter any bugs or would like to collaborate in its development, please let me know.

  ~1 year on
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  5 development techniques to improve software quality Most of these things you should really already be doing and if you’re not then I’d suggest starting to do so right away. 1. Step back and plan It’s often hard not to just jump straight in to coding, especially with a project you are excited about. Try to resist that urge by stepping back and taking [...]

  ~1 year on
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  Resizing images in PHP with GD and Imagick One task that is quite often required in websites and web applications is resizing of images for thumbnails or any other purpose. In PHP there’s a number of different ways you can approach image resizing each of which has it’s own advantages and disadvantages. In this post we will be using the GD and Imagick [...]

  ~1 year on
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  10 Sites that every web developer should know This is a simple post listing some sites that I use very regularly. It is not an exhaustive list, by any means, but it might contain some sites that you didn’t know about. If you like any or have any sites to add to the list, please leave a comment. Whats My Agent String? Ok, so this [...]

  ~1 year on
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