Java optimiser for Zend Lucene Index
Found this interesting utility today: http://code.google.com/p/luke/Zend Lucene is a great library to add search engine capability to your site, but it consumes so much memory that you may need...
View ArticleLuke 0.8 for Zend Lucene
The more I use Zend Lucene lib, the more I think I should go for a different lib next time I integratet a search engine (such as Sphinx for instance). Java Lucene is fast and not too greedy resource...
View ArticleBrowsing images: Lazy load
Came across Mark Delamere's portfolio site recently, and though: nice way to display long vertical series of images, similar fading effect as the one used on Google Images.This effect is rendered...
View ArticleNew grid system for front end design
A new grid system is out: http://lessframework.com/ -Emmanuel Idé http://galide.jazar.co.uk
View ArticleBuilding App UI the easy way
Just came across Sencha UI designer product today, which looks impressive. I have used GWK a couple of times already, which is already relatively easy to use. You build the UI in Java, and Google Web...
View Articlee-commerce platform to sell software
I have developed quite a few e-commerce websites for software companies, and requirements are slightly different from standard e-commerce checkout process, as you can download the product at the end,...
View Articleprototyping with axure
There are quite a lot of tools and techniques used for wireframing. Scanning hand drawings has got its own merits. And if you have got good photoshop skills, it's quite easy to wireframe pages using...
View Articlecrowdsourcing for startups
Couple of online "crowd sourcing" services I would recomment when developing a new project from ground up, on budget.. 1) Brand namehttp://www.namingforce.com/ will help you find a name for your new...
View ArticlePosting the list of your competitors on your website
It looks like posting a list of all your competitors on your website is all the rage. SEO experts will argue that you need to be found in search engines when some looks for "better than competitor X"....
View ArticleSEO Tool
Long time I had not posted a SEO Tool - here is good looking, clean and useful tool for back links analysishttp://www.opensiteexplorer.org/Emmanuel Idé http://galide.jazar.co.uk
View Articlehosting videos on Amzon, and protect them..
An easy to read article about how to host videos on Amazone cloud storage, and protect your bandwidth:http://evolt.org/s3secureEmmanuel Idé http://galide.jazar.co.uk
View ArticleMYSQL: drop all tables without dropping the database
A very useful little script to let you drop all tables in a database without deleting the actual database (in case for instance you don't have the right to drop the actual...
View ArticleZend Server hosted on Windows / restart Apache
Command line to restart Apache on windows when Zend Server is running:net stop Apache2.2-Zend && net start Apache2.2-ZendEmmanuel Idé http://galide.jazar.co.uk
View Articlemanaging referrals
Developing a referal system can be a great marketing tool. Allopass, a company servicing micro payments managed to raise to €20Mo valuation very rapidly thanks to a clever affiliation scheme:Generate...
View Articlesocial media / lesson #1
In the past few weeks I have been meeting up with social media specialists/experts, and I have read a fair amount of articles about the topic.Most consultants I met insisted on integration: use a tool...
View ArticleNice UI script
I am being a bit lazy here, and using this blog to keep track of a plug-in I would like to use for future app UI:http://layout.jquery-dev.net/Emmanuel Idé http://galide.jazar.co.uk
View ArticleURL Shortener & SEO
URL shortener don't hurt SEO anymore.Google recommends using a URL shortener with keywords embedded in the URL. PageRank and Anchor Text are then transfered to the target page. Google provides its own...
View Articleinstall wine on CentOs 64bits
If you need to install wine on a 64bits (fedora): 1) use EPEL repository: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm2) you can then install wine, which is...
View ArticleGPLed program for Windows / Poedit
Took me a little while to figure this one out.http://www.poedit.net/trac/ticket/380There is a bug in poedit which makes the application systematically crash if you have a syntax error in one of your...
View ArticleIE7 issue? solve it with zoom
If you are struggling with absolute positioning a div in IE7 Or any other element, simpy add div {zoom: 1} (or replace with the elelement you are targetting) on top of your CSS. Will generally sort out...
View ArticleMicroformats make it mainstream
http://schema.org is an interesting website, pulled together by google, Yahoo and Bing, and providing technical guidelines about how to implement microformats.Probably a good idea to add this to SEO...
View Articleframeworks
It is interesting to pick up skills listed by outsource companies, as you can then identify which web frameworks or technologies are making it mainstream. Below are a couple of them1) BootstrapNew...
View Articlevertical slider navigation, not always fit for purpose
I have seen a new trend in web design in the past few months, the vertical slider. The navigation scrolls you to a different part of the same page. and this gives the feeling of traveling through a...
View Articledesign for desktop, mobile, tablet
I recently read an interesting article on alistapart, outlining how we should be designing user experience across and between devices: 1) I want to check (mobile)2) I want to manage (desktop)3) I want...
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