Archive for May, 2009

Introduction

Websites, that aggregate something become more and more popular because we need all information available in one place and accessed fast and easily. From time to time, you come across with tasks, that require retrieving some data from the password-protected area. For example, I use Guru.com for my job search. They post lots of the projects there, but they don’t offer convenient listing and filtering. So I developed my own tool, that grabs everything from there and ranks it all in the way I need. So, we’ll take a look at different types of password-protected areas and see how to deal with any of them

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Posted by Konstantin Mirin on May 24, 2009 at 09:00 under PHP, Programming.
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Introduction

Personal productivity depends on the tools greatly, so I pay much attention to the programs I use. My previous post in this field was about MySQL workbench which I consider the best free DB design tool for MySQL.

When I started coding PHP, I used Linux so I used Kate, which only had syntax highlighting and allowed to save multiple files opened as a project :) Next was Quanta, the Linux IDE for PHP. I spent lots of time developing there until I installed trial version of Zend Development Environment (ZDE) 5.5. That was really cool. I liked it very much and used for quite long time. Around half a year ago I heard about NetBeans and decided to try it out. I was thinking quite long about it, I didn’t have enough time to install and go through all it’s functions. Finally I saw that I will never have this time, so I started using it around 1.5 months ago. While using, I was putting down some notes about the things I liked and the ones I didn’t. So now I just want to present my list :)

Continue reading ‘NetBeans 6.5 for PHP – My Experience’ »

Posted by Konstantin Mirin on May 22, 2009 at 09:00 under PHP, Programming.
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Preface

In November 2008 I’ve got a nice project, that resulted in a complex search engine, that specializes in clothing. I can’t give the link now, but will do when site officially launches. Key features of such service are:

  • Large number of users, which search with various parameters, rate items, leave comments, create articles etc.
  • Large database, that is updated frequently

Sure, the site is running on a dedicated server, sure I use caching, but optimal DB is a key to success.

Continue reading ‘Building high-loaded portal – InnoDB vs MyISAM’ »

Posted by Konstantin Mirin on May 20, 2009 at 09:00 under DB Design, Databases, MySQL.
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I’m not a music fan, I don’t usually watch this, but yesterday my girlfriend had birthday and she likes such things, so we were watching Eurovision together from beginning to the end. And I don’t regret it! :)
As for me, the show Russians prepared, was not excellent, it was mega-excellent(I’d even say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious;)) – the show, the scene, all effects were so cool! I can’t compare with previous ones, but my girl says Eurovision never had such beautiful show. Russians showed they can do things good if they want to, which I’m very proud of :) I really liked the acrobatics and the girls in the shallow water above. Dima Bilan’s initial song and his show was somewhat philosophical, at least it seemed to me so.
Continue reading ‘Eurovision 2009 – My Impressions’ »

Posted by Konstantin Mirin on May 17, 2009 at 12:18 under Life.
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