http://www.ideaticus.com ideas, experiences and stories about online business Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:19:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This article resides in my sandbox for some time and this is the big day for him. I will write some ideas about some friends that are running IT business. Emil Marcoci - Software engineer Emil is first of all my friend but also a great software engineer. He enjoys a ... http://www.ideaticus.com/2008/10/15/some-friends-and-what-they-are-doing-part-i/ I want to share some ideas about using AJAX in web interface development. Working with Dojo, jQuery or any other JavaScript framework any web developer is able to offer a higher level of usability. In my projects I try to implement the following: Error checking in forms: Detecting duplicates of username, e-mail, ... http://www.ideaticus.com/2008/08/12/human-computer-interaction-episode-iii/ I had a small conversation with a junior PHP developer and I was disappointed about the lack of knowledge on PHP caching. In this article I will cover some ideas about APC. What is APC? Php.net offers a laconic presentation: " The Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is ... http://www.ideaticus.com/2008/07/21/alternative-php-cache/ This is not really something new, but I had to use it few days ago and I decided to write my experience with the new Query Profiler from MySQL. Jeremy Cole from Proven Scaling did a great job and since MySQL Community Server 5.0.37 we have now a built-in tool ... http://www.ideaticus.com/2008/07/12/php-and-mysql-query-profiler/ Maybe you've heard the expression: "Managing computer programmers is like herding cats". I think that analogy is not chosen just happy. Traditional management, through some sort of command-control hierarchy, isn't what a manager should attempt. Programmers are complex people and have a spacial way of thinking in consonance with the ... http://www.ideaticus.com/2008/07/08/culture-factor-in-team-management-and-leadership/ I found a very interesting tool to write articles on Ideaticus.com : Windows Live Writer. I have to admit that I'm rarely impressed by Microsoft software and in this case I really am. First of all it was extremely easy to connect this software to my WordPress and ... http://www.ideaticus.com/2008/06/27/windows-live-writer/ Attention: this is a technical article. Sometimes site owners, with almost zero technical knowledge, want a way to save their database then to import them directly from their web application. For this I usualy save every table as CSV file and for import, I parse every csv file and import in ... http://www.ideaticus.com/2008/06/05/importing-csv-files-with-php/ I managed to finish another article about Human Computer Interaction. In the previous episode we covered some rules about search results. Maybe some of you found them useful and I decided to write about Graphical User Interface (GUI). The most used paradigm in Graphical User Interfaces is "window, icon, menu, ... http://www.ideaticus.com/2008/06/05/human-computer-interaction-episode-ii/ It's been a while since my first download of Firefox and I'm proud of using the best web browser in the world. This has nothing to do with my sympathy for open source movement and definitely not a manifesto against Microsoft. In my opinion Firefox is the best. I found today ... http://www.ideaticus.com/2008/06/04/firefox-3/ Hello everyone! I'll write today about a code reuse, maybe one of the most interesting controversy of the IT industry. I have three questions that I'll try to answer in this article: Why it is good to reuse code and why it is bad? How and when can we reuse the ... http://www.ideaticus.com/2008/05/04/code-reuse-in-web-context/