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I have finally taken a look on the new Windows 8 and it is truly a beauty, but, it is visually made for e-pads and not for normal PCs. The welcome screen is like a big gadgets block with access to a app store. No more the old style Windows bar when you hit the windows key. Annoying things: the scrolling is side-ways so your mouse is useless finding the control panel is a pain in the …. most of the stuff is very well hidden Fun things: cntrl + alt + del still works trying to find how to turn...

This is me working from home today. Filed under: development Tagged: crazy, home, remote, working

This is a small trick with MySQL that will make your paginate methods and queries faster. When doing a SELECT use SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS on it so after the select is done you will already have the count of the rows even if you are doing a limit. Example: SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS id, name, created FROM my_table LIMIT 0,10; This will return the 10 first results from the table, but if you do SELECT FOUND_ROWS(); It will return the number of rows that it would have been if the prior select was...

Today I have came by a very strange behavior that was blocking up a dialog to show just prior to the ajax to load. The ajax was binded to a click event and on the ajax beforeSend I had: $('.dialogModal').dialog(); In theory the beforeSend event will be triggered every time for the ajax call, but, if you have async: false in the ajax call, this will never work for Chrome and IE. Reason is that the beforeSend for both Chrome and IE happens after the ajax is completely done and at that point, my...

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I occasionally play WOW (World of Warcraft) and as a “Lock” I know that I shouldn’t use hellfire in any instance (bg or not), is a waste of energy and give’s no result. With MySQL LEFT JOINS is no different. Off course there will be cases where you will be required to use a LEFT JOIN (and in most of these, normalizing the tables would work), but if you can avoid it, the performance gain on the queries is considerable. There are options for not using left joins, but here are a couple: 1. INNER...

Spreading the wordThe South Florida PHP Users Group has a very special speaker coming to South Florida in December. The creator of PHP will actually be in South Florida to talk about “PHP in 2011″. This is a FREE event, and anyone interested in the web can benefit from what this guy has to say. The event will be held at Nova Southeastern University on Wednesday, December 14th at 7:00 pm.Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995 and has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. He spent 7 years at Yahoo and has since worked for ...

I have to confess that I have been reluctant in writing about Steve Jobs. He have just passed away and how could I write about a man with so great brilliance and that brought to the tech world the innovation word.For many he was more than an idol, for me he was the inventor of WAD (works as designed). Even knowing that this little flaw on the launch of iPhone 4 was probably a heavy weight for such a perfectionism man, it showed that he had at least some humor within.Today’s morning the world knew that a the former CEO of Apple has passed away; Today’s morning I learned that I would not ...

Today I heard an interesting podcast from the guys of PHPSP and during the whole podcast they brought 2 interesting points: Every developer should participate on a PHP Open Source project so he can not only learn new techniques but also improve his techniques Zend Framework is definitely not for beginners. Talking about frameworks is hard and there are a lot to consider and there is even a lot more that can be overlooked, therefore there are a few things that must be considered: MVC it can jumpstart a project and seriously: time is money performance ...

Everybody knows that creating a CSS and JS from the scratch is a pain in the neck and making them UI friendly is even more annoying. A couple of weeks ago I came across this project that make’s any developer life a bit better.http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/I has a bootstrap file for CSS and the default JQuery plugins necessary for UI. It is definetly a great resource and can speed up the development of the the UI of the site a ton more.Give it a check. Filed under: Tagged: , , ,

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Somedays you just read a piece of creativity and brilliance that is worth to share. Got this one from Twitter (RT) that I have translated to the proper english. The platypus is a duck that the programmer created the following requirementspassed by the user. To add to that: Bugs is what we fix so the platypus can be back a duck Filed under: , Tagged: , , ,

Scalable, Flexible, Portable PHP in the Cloud Webinar from Zend RightScale and Zend recently introduced a solution to provide a best practices path to launching and maintaining highly-available PHP applications in the cloud. Learn more about the RightScale and Zend Solution Pack: attend our webinar on August 17. Join us on August 17 for a demo of this new cloud solution that enables you to: • Provision a pre-configured, high availability PHP environment in minutes • Autoscale your...

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For a couple months now I have been a happy owner of an Android ePad (MID) bought directly from eBay. The only frustation that I had was that for some apps it was very very slow and it was painful to get more apps since the manufacturer did not had access to Google’s Android Market. Amazon has just released it’s own Android market and best of, they dont check for manufacturers to allow access to the apps so you can easily download top apps (like Angry Birds) with no problem what so ever. If...