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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Random user generation – optimized
I came across this blog posting about optimizing order by rand() and decided to make my queries better. Here is my real life example on how to optimize this query:
AJAX Security Research and Findings – Round 1
(“the triangle”) wants to keep implementing more and more AJAX based systems – but no one ever took time to research into the security issues with this. I did a proof of concept one time with a zip-code function when … Continue reading
Emulation of Collections – true stories of data object handling
Today, Big Boy sent me an e-mail at work talking about emulation of collections in his .net programming. He included a code sample (after the break). This got me thinking about how I am planning on handling data going forward. … Continue reading
When to be OOP – and how much… Lesson Learned!
I just finished reading a snippet of a book about design patterns – of which Strategy, Adapter, Decorator and others were discussed. It got me to thinking about my design patterns that I used in JEMDiary – and what I’ll … Continue reading
Load Time Analyzer for Firefox
So, I started looking at a few load time analyzers for my sites – and I found an interesting plugin for firefox. I wasn’t too entirely sure what I was going to find – but I figured I’d try it … Continue reading
I am a Zend Certified Engineer
I just wanted to point out that I am the worlds newest Zend Certified Engineer – as of this morning at 10:00a.m. CST. PHP 5 ZCE
PHP5 Object Oriented Properties – Tested!
I was recently reading an article (while researching for my website monitoring project), and there was a comment about PHP5′s lack of flexibility in its Object Oriented usage. Some people were arguing for it – and some against, the typical … Continue reading
Make interfaces Useful, not featureful
There seem to be two schools of design lately: Feature rich, RIA designs and simplicity. There seems to be confusion over what is the right way to design a website or… for that fact, a user interface. With the technological … Continue reading
Planning for application development
In my “younger years” in the coding world, I’d have an idea like I have right now with the website monitoring project – and immediately start coding. I’d get the framework done, implement a feature or two, and then finally … Continue reading
Test Driven Development Book Review
(“the triangle”) just recently purchased a book for the library at my request, Test-Driven Development by example by Kent Beck. The current Amazon price for this book is $35. The book took me about 2 weeks of sporadic reading to … Continue reading