Looks like Eclipse PDT was getting quite slow on me, it thinks sometimes 10-15 seconds when I switch between files or save one. My current project is not small one, but still… Looking around for a solutions I found quite easy tip at http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t61618.html In short – I am now running eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xms256m -Xmx256m -XX:PermSize=64m -XX:MaxPermSize=64m and my Eclipse is way faster. Thanks for the tip, Riyad Kalla!

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...

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

I’ve being working with the application where users can post their property listings and then upload unlimited number of photos for their property. As the web site has being around for quite a few years, previous solution was straight forward – form with multiple file input fields. As digital cameras started producing images with more and more megapixels, and larger images as a result, this method was getting worse and worse. When user uploads multiple photos, they have no way to tell what the progress is, so people sometimes were re-submitting more and more of the same images. We added...