http://www.netuality.ro Taming the big, bad, nasty websites Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:43:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, language propaganda again. Ain't it fun ? Here comes a nice quote from the latest Steve Yegge post (read it entirely if you have the time, it's both fun and educational - at least for me). So, there: I made the famously, horribly, career-shatteringly bad mistake of trying to use Ruby ... http://www.netuality.ro/google-sorry-but-lisprubyerlang-not-on-the-menu/tools/20080529 According to O'Reilly Radar, sales of Java books have declined in the last 4 years by almost 50%. C# is selling more books from year to year and will probably level up with Java in 2008. Javascript is on the rise (due to AJAX, for sure) and PHP is on ... http://www.netuality.ro/java-going-down-python-way-up-and-more/tools/20080524 This presentation was planned for an older Wurbe event, but as this never quite happened in the last 4 months I am publishing it now, before it becomes totally obsolete. My original contribution here is a comparison between the original memcached server from Danga and the tugela fork from the MediaWiki ... http://www.netuality.ro/memcached-vs-tugela-vs-memcachedb/presentations/20080317 If you came here from the Mediafax article, this address is wrong. The Netuality you're looking for is hosted by Hotnews. http://www.netuality.ro/looking-for-3-at-roblogfest-businesstechnology/andeverythingelse/20080315 Wurbe is the informal web developers meeting group, from Bucharest Romania. Meeting #5 was focused on automated testing (unit, TDD, BDD, other stuff). This is my presentation: http://www.netuality.ro/my-presentation-at-wurbe5/presentations/20080122 Moving my blog to the Wordpress platform, I wanted to install a template somewhat nicer than the default. This is how I discovered a potentially very harmful stunt which some blackhats are pulling in free Wordpress templates. What they do is build sort of "template farms" where they keep a ... http://www.netuality.ro/nasty-wordpress-template-scam/tools/20071021 I decided to start again to do some blogging, after a one year hiatus. My new blog will be hosted here, at Netuality. Sorry for losing all the comments, but Wordpress does not know how to export data from Apache Roller, had to do it via RSS. Oh and yes, ... http://www.netuality.ro/new-home-for-my-blog/uncategorized/20071021 You have to know that I've tried. Honestly, I did. I hoped to be able to read each and every page of "Java persistence with Hibernate" (revised edition of "Hibernate in action"), by Christian Bauer and Gavin King. But, I gave up before reading a third of it, then I ... http://www.netuality.ro/java-persistence-with-hibernate-the-book-my-review/books/20061217 A newcomer in the world of "code snippets" sites in programmingishard.com. Although the site is a few months old, only recently it started to gain some steam. Unlike its competition Krugle and Koders, this is not a code search engine but a snippet repository entirely tag-based, user-built. The author has ... http://www.netuality.ro/programming-is-hard-the-website/tools/20060802 Memcached is a clusterable cache server from Danga. Or, as they call, it a distributed memory object caching system. Well, whatever. Just note that memcached clients exist for lots of languages (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl) - mainstream languages in the web world. A lighter version of server was rewritten ... http://www.netuality.ro/monitoring-memcached-with-cacti/tools/20060802 My previous article was focused on Linux monitoring. Often, you'll have in your datacenter at least a few Windows machines. SQL Server is one of the best excuses these days to get a Microsoft machine in your server room - and you know what, it's a decent database - well, ... http://www.netuality.ro/monitoring-windows-servers-with-snmp/tools/20060512 Very easy: start by adding the default-character-set=utf8 in your MySQL configuration file and restart the database server apply this recipe from Activestate Python Cookbook ("guaranteed conversion to unicode or byte string") inside the Cheetah template, use the ReplaceNone filter: #filter ReplaceNone ${myUnicodeString} #end filter in order to prevent escaping non-ASCII characters. Now. That's better. http://www.netuality.ro/unicode-in-python-micro-recipe-from-mysql-to-webpage-via-cheetah/tools/20060414