Posts tagged ‘experiece’

Introduction

In my recent project there are quite many tasks that run in the background – generate thumbnails, detect colours on the pictures, run DB updates etc. Sure, all that is handled using cron and Yii commands. However there is a little problem. Consider we have DB update routine that should import new stock data from the datafeed. Datafeed is uploaded hourly, but upload can’t be scheduled to minutes – connection speed, different errors may interrupt the upload. On the other hand, sometimes processing takes 5 mins and sometimes – a few hours because in the first variant we just replace records and in the latter – download images for the new products.

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Posted by Konstantin Mirin on March 25, 2010 at 09:31 under PHP, Programming, Yii.
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Background

I’ve graduated in March 2010 and I don’t need to visit university any more. However, I enjoyed studying there and I know what challenges my fellow students-programmers have. That’s why I continue the job started this autumn – computer club, we call it “Geeks’ Club”. Sure, we’re not true geeks there, but we tend to be :) So I’m helping students who’re interested in web-technologies and in object-oriented programming. I explain them things that are not covered in the standard university course. Things, that are more practical and they can be paid money for.

Continue reading ‘Requirements and Use Cases. SMS Notification System.’ »

Posted by Konstantin Mirin on March 18, 2010 at 08:00 under OOP, PHP, Programming.
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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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