Archive for 'Web Development'
Assessing a Company Based on their Coffee
Posted on 24. Jul, 2010 by admin.
There is a method of company assessment that seems to work quite well – assessing a company based on their coffee. This system only really works for coffee connoisseurs, but if you fall into this category, the results are surprisingly accurate.
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Interspire Shopping Cart doesnt support PHP 5.3
Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by forouzani.
This morning, while trying to setup a development environment to integrate Interspire Shopping Cart with another application, I had a hard time getting the shop to load. Everything seemed to be setup correctly, even the database connection was being made… but all I would get was a 500 Internal Server error. I spent a fair [...]
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Google Buzz – in Gmail
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by forouzani.
There has been a lot of talk lately about the new feature Google is rolling out with Gmail called Google Buzz. The majority of the articles I have read seem to think Google is trying to tread on Twitter’s space by making a ‘Twitter Killer’, but I dont think this is what Google is doing [...]
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Disadvantages of Git
Posted on 12. Jan, 2010 by forouzani.
Below is what I consider to be the disadvantages of Git – when compared to subversion. I should point out that these are just my niggles with git – I still prefer it over subversion because stashing is cool, and there is always less merging when using Git.
Revision Numbers
Git uses “hashes” which are completely unreadable [...]
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Search all columns in all database tables
Posted on 20. Dec, 2009 by forouzani.
When a business has an application which is poorly documented, with a complex database structure, and no co-herent database design principles – trying to figure out how the application works can be a nightmare. What is even more frightening, is trying to reverse engineer the current business logic, so that the code can be refactored [...]


