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For the past few months (or more) I’ve been building something I’d like to call “an ideal homepage“. Very hard task to do, but I’m sure I will come close to the idea with the project, sooner or later…
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By “large” I mean a forum with database of 300+ MB in size.
One of my clients wanted to change hosting company as his website grow over the past few years and he wasn’t satisfied with GoDaddy’s shared hosting, but also with GoDaddy service at all…
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Moving a project from one domain to another is something you should avoid. Unless it is really necessary – just don’t do it :)

But, maybe you sold a domain and want to transfer a project to another domain name. Then you have a lot of things to do.
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It’s been now more then a year that my wife and I released a new parenthooding forum in Croatia – www.superbaby.org.

Since then, forum became one of the most popular chat&help machines in Croatia for everybody who is and will become a parent.

At this point of time we are counting more then 1.600 registered members, more then 240.000 posts and a really big number of new and returning daily visitors.
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Once I created my first AJAX “application” (also based on some simple tutorial) I just can’t stop thinking of AJAX methodology and it’s usage all over the projects.

What is AJAX actually? By definition – Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, a technique used in web application development.
In general it is a combination of XHTML and JavaScript.

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I was building an OCR driven application, implementation of EMC² Captiva InputAccel as input management system for enterprises. We had a server dedicated just for OCR mechanism as we were having a higher volume of scanning/documents to OCR on a daily basis.

OCR mechanism was an “old” application – an Abbyy FineReader OCR module for InputAccel, written obviously before multi-core CPUs etc, but it was good enough to do the job.
This app is capable of running in a multiple instances as in that way it could complete it’s processing faster. But, there was a problem. Read more >>

Wouldn’t it be great if you could see what data exactly do you submit with your HTML form with Post method? Well, you can and it’s easy with Paros Proxy tool !

As the name says, to simplify, this utility acts as your local web proxy. So, to set it up (after the installation) you configure your web browser’s proxy setting to something like http://localhost:xxxx (where “xxxx” is a Paros Proxy specific port). By doing that all traffic you make through your web browser goes through this utility. Read more >>

Don’t Make Me Think – A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability, by Steve Krug

This is a full title of this great great great book I read !

The title really says everything about the book. It is very easy to read, once you start reading it, you can’t stop till you get to the last page.
It is also illustrated with real life examples. Read more >>

It’s really hard for me to read unformatted e-mails, and it’s getting annoying when I recieve some important information and loose my eyes on scanning bunch of text in search for text I need to read.

I was also one of those programmers who didn’t “found time” to format those notification e-mails sent to webshop customers, but after some time I realized what I was missing:

• attractive looking e-mail newsletters to attrack customers to buy more
• simplifying user registration with easy to read next registration process step
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Recently I needed to create a small command line app which processes .TXT files with some minor text editing.

So, as I’m a big fan of PHP I took a quick Google search on running  .PHP scripts without installing PHP itself.

But, I’ve found something even more interesting – an application that actually converts, compiles, .PHP scripts into a standalone command line EXE application ! Read more >>