I just discovered interesting thing – to my shame I misspelled word “developer” (as in web developer) on my web site and for a while I was advertising myself as “web developmer“. Bad for me I guess. But interesting thing, when checking statistics, I get better position in the search results as a developMer – just because there is not a lot of pages with same typo. Just to compare – when I search for the web developer it returns over 56 millions of pages and for web developmer it’s only 4500. So, I guess if I add more words like this to my page saying...

Quite an interesting idea – to execute PHP scripts in Windows as regular exe. Behind the scenes it uses IE component, but there is no IE toolbars and you have a control on windows your application uses. Also you can create an installer, so it will look for user as a regular windows application. These days a lot of applications are actually switching to web services, so you actually do not have to install software, you can just use it from your internet browser. But I can still see quite a few uses of this tool to create client site components for the application. So, will keep this in mind and...

Do you know PHP and thinking about getting some freelance job? You are not alone for sure, freelancing is a good way to get an extra income, to get started building your portfolio or to stop coming to the office and work from home. Here is a good list of freelance positions for PHP developers: http://workfromhomephpjobs.blogspot.com/

The biggest traffic source for the web site is search engines traffic. There is a lot what can be written on search engine optimization (SEO). But I just realized that often web masters or web site owners missing quite important application from the Google itself Google Webmaster Tools That’s a valuable data on what Google “knows” about your web site, definetely worth checking and should be a starting point of the search engines optimization.

If you are doing web development, then you know that you need to have all recent versions of the IE browser to troubleshoot your sites. Here is one way to have them all, thanks to Edskes Software collection – just download pack and install all versions you want. http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

We are using FogBugz application for the bugs and support requests tracking. And it’s configured to receive support@companyname.com emails (means tons of spam). Once the database size hit approximately 20,000 requests, we started really wonder: why so slow? It looks like there was another table BugEvent which size is around 200,000 records at that time. It could be some other application, could be your own code. Doesn’t matter – just it happens, one database size grows, performance of the application is degrading. First step to troubleshoot – enable slow queries log in the MySQL...