22 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Image Manipulation in PHP

Sometimes there is a need to do simple image manipulation for certain web projects. Take for example a popular site called Flickr. Flickr is an image hosting site that allows online community to store pictures for others to view. And for some cases some uploaders may have big image files and hence a site like [...]

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15 June 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Web Performance Best Practices

Following-up my previous post on how to increase site performance. I received an email from my lead about a Firefox add-on named “Page Speed” that helps analyze a site performance. In brief, Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages [...]

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28 May 2009 ~ 5 Comments

One-Cent Tips to Increase Site Performance

Experience a spike in usage on your hosting server? Well, my old friend does as he highlighted in his recent post about his decision in switching his theme to a simple one: one that he presumed doesn’t chew up a lot of resources from his shared hosting server ;) . So here’s just my little thought or sharing tips on how to increase your web site or blog site performance for better user experience.

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23 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Download Torrent from Web

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Good News! (or perhaps Old News) For torrent leechers this could be an alternative. But for those who do not like to have BitTorrent client fill up your hard disk space but still love to use torrent when needed, then BitLet is definitely the answer for you. BitLet is a cute web-based Java applet that [...]

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20 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Quick and Easy Way to Create Model Class in PHP

Ever experienced a boring and time-consuming task where you have to create a new class for your model object: declaring list of variables and creating the getter and setter functions? “Always” is my answer. Imagine if you have a long list of variables. “Shoot! NOT AGAIN” may be the first exclamation came out from you. [...]

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