Alexander's blog

Some Joomla and Mamaba solutions is so big. I have not problem with size - I just add new disks to my server.
I use control version software for all my projects (SVN or CVS) and it is very easy to share my work with another coders or track what I did here before year(yes, I provide support for all my projects).

So, common problem which I take latest weeks is that I have big applications and just export:

  cvs export -r release_X_Y project

cvs diff -N -c -r release_X_Y -r release_X_Y > diffs

many clients ask me why I suggest to use PDO as part of optimization

it is very simple
PDO structures is native PHP drivers, which mean that was designed and optimized for PHP

Just image, libmysql use buffers and PHP interface use buffers. This mean that functionality is doubled! It is absolutely normal step to remove libmysql as layer. As part of server optimization this step require MySQL 4.1 as minimal version.

At the end, migration from libmysql usage to PDO save up to 40% server resources!

A long time ago, when I start to use my first FreeBSD workstation I used ee as simple editor (it is simple and very useful), after ee I use vi it take a lot more time to understand "how" and "why" it works, but... I don't stop it use.

Only one thing stop me to use vi as default environment for PHP based projects - miss XDebug support.
So, at moment at all my servers I use vi as default editor, sometime I have not root privileges and use next lines in .bash_profile

EDITOR=vi
export EDITOR
alias editor=$EDITOR

I work with GPix every day and only now I understood how many time I spent to admin login page

I spent to GPix near 2 hours(average) every day and I login minimum 3(average) times per day. My browser remember login and pass, so I wait page and click login 5-8 secs

All this mean that I spent minimum 90 minutes for latest year to login!!! and all this time I use two computers only! amazing
So, I implement "Remember my computer" button I think that it will be useful for GPix administrators.

I have received several mails from active GPix testers about 'back links' functionality.

It is common way to increase you site rank and don't spend direct money for this.
So, I see common problem 'curl' extension and cron setup.

As result I will try to implement this functionality without this requirements.

do you have several servers?
do you transfer data between them?

time to time I transfer data between servers and in most cases I use

scp local-file user@host:/path/remote-file

scp user@host:/path/remove-file

for this task netcat is useful too, so it can be like this
server side

nc -l -p 12121 > local-file

cat local-file | nc host 12121

of course 12121 need to be replaced with something random because "nc" don't provide authentication and encryption

Often I develop and control process using ssh(putty) session. Connection with server allow me monitor and do related sub-task like svn/cvs updates.

I don't like when my session give timeout message - server require activity. I use "top" on my local server, but some third party environment don't allow me this (have not access to top!), so I just thinking about this situation after couple minutes of googling discover 'watch' command.

It is so easy:

watch ls

and you session keep alive

New release included next:

• min width and height for rectange (http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?p=154619#post154619)
• fix republish functionality ("Utime failed" error)
• original (bigger that at pixels side) image show(image to expand on mouse over)
• option list via direct lists for multiple grids (http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?p=153689)

Currently I wait test results, so it will take several days to see release at TUFaT

option list via direct lists for multiple grids (http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?p=153689)

To implement this feature in your skin, you need to apply next changes
index.tpl:

{if $links}
    {foreach item=link from=$links}
        {$link}   
    {/foreach}
{/if}

{if !$app->setting->grids_as_options}
  {if $links}
    {foreach item=link from=$links}
      {$link}   
    {/foreach}
  {/if}
{/if}

after this line

      <td align="right">

        {if $app->setting->grids_as_options}
          ##Grid:##

I have many request for original images feature

so, now it is done

GPix users which will update its own templates need to merge index.tpl, show_pixels.tpl and style.css with original files from GPix package.