http://blogs.helion-prime.com design, simplicity, and experience with a technology focus Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:48:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.” William A. Wulf preamble Since my last article about performance comparison of popular CMSs: Typo3, Joomla!, and Drupal [typo3-joomla-and-drupal-cmss-performance-testing.html] I got enormous amount of messages, emails and notes. Most discussed ... http://blogs.helion-prime.com/alexshapovalov/2008/07/02/battle-n2-typo3-joomla-and-drupal-cmss-performance-testing.html preamble JoomFish heavily influences Joomla! performance and with new release of JoomFish we have a question: which performance changes we have with new version of JoomFish 2.0b2. New revolution today, no just another good enhancement Testing conditions exactly like in previous test: I have created virtual dedicated server with following configuration within our server to ... http://blogs.helion-prime.com/alexshapovalov/2008/06/30/performance-testing-of-new-joomfish-20b2-for-joomla.html One of interesting novelty of Java6 is a possibility to access compiler via special API. Let's look on this feature a bit closer. In order to have an access to compilation subsystem we should use classes located at javax.tools package [http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/tools/package-summary.html]. In the future in this package possibly appear classes to work with ... http://blogs.helion-prime.com/henadiyatroshko/2008/06/13/on-the-fly-compilation-in-java6.html preamble Our world is currently in transition from traditional desktop applications to web-oriented where most of time we want to do everything in the Web with help of our browsers. Sometimes nevertheless we want to use some web-applications like: Gmail, Google docs, FaceBook or on-line dictionary as desktop application. Is it possible ... http://blogs.helion-prime.com/vasiliykiryanov/2008/06/03/new-web-experience-with-mozilla-prism.html preamble There is set of plug-ins that really simplify development process and glance will help you select something for your daily work. golden list name: firebug functions: edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live hints: page loading analysis, live working with CSS styles, JavaScript debugger add-on page: [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843] name: user agent switcher functions: switch the user ... http://blogs.helion-prime.com/alexshapovalov/2008/06/02/simplify-of-web-development-with-firefox-plug-ins.html preamble If you use RoR [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails] then you already know that ERuby [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERuby] is pretty enough and you don't ever think you need something else. Haml {markup haiku} Haml is an alternative way to code your "views". It can be much easier, look on these examples: XHTML: <strong class="code" id="message">Hello, World!</strong> Haml: %strong{:class => "code", :id => "message"} ... http://blogs.helion-prime.com/vasiliykiryanov/2008/05/30/gem-of-the-day-haml-abstraction-markup-language.html According to InformationWeek [http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/database/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207801436] Yahoo! corporation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!] has world busiest and largest database. System has build for analytical purposes, and contains history of web-users behavior. It has size: 2-petabyte, and loading about 24 billion events a day. Engineers of Yahoo expect size increasing up to 5-petabyte by next year. In order to compare sizes: USA ... http://blogs.helion-prime.com/alexshapovalov/2008/05/29/world-largest-database-works-on-modified-postgresql.html