Data URIs

Date: Thu Feb 11 17:12:00 2010

The data URIs allow inlining linked documents. Recent experiences show that the benefit they offer is limited.

Eliminating unnecessary database queries

Date: Wed Nov 12 21:49:00 2008

Avoiding unnecessary optimizations and providing functionality fast, application developers can end up with code that works OK most of the times, but given a special case, can cause serious performance problems. Mine is the case of our CMS, and the way it handled hierarchical page list.

Plugins for web applications

Date: Sun Aug 24 00:56:00 2008

Adding intrusive customer-specific features to a web application means often a lot of work for maintaining the customized version of the application. This cost can be avoided by clever plugin system, which encapsulates the custom features and behaviour, thus leaving the codebase clean of modifications.

How to improve relevance

Date: Sat May 17 10:00:05 2008

Judging relevance by analysing links was a great move for Google back when it started in search engine business. Improving relevance with blogs after linkfarms and SEO linking schemas came was a good improvement. Now we've come to a situation where a considerable amount of blogs are just fronts for making money with google ads. How to improve the situationa? Here are my thoughts.

My top 15 commands

Date: Tue May 13 21:06:00 2008

You can tell a lot about a person by looking at his command history. My most used commands are vim, cd, and svn.

Vim help

Date: Sun May 11 16:35:38 2008

Helpful Vim stuff for my convenience.

PostgreSQL support for Vanilla 1.1.4

Date: Thu Feb 28 21:19:00 2008

This patch adds PostgreSQL support to Vanilla 1.1.4 forum software.

Template Toolkit 2 or 3

Date: Fri Oct 5 14:47:00 2007

Template Toolkit's new site almost convinces me to go back to writing websites with Perl and TT.

PowerPoint conversion

Date: Sat Jul 28 09:21:00 2007

Creating PowerPoint presentations is tricky but manageable.

All your base with Calvin and Hobbes

Date: Sun Apr 1 19:09:00 2007

The English cutscene of the game Zero Wing has become such a meme we see Calvin and Hobbes do it.