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Entries from September 26th, 2008

Free Alternative to Flex Builder

September 26th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Flex, Tools

It’s been a long time since I last played with Flex. I feel like starting from square one. This also means that I have a more difficult path ahead of me, with my Flex Builder trial license already expired. Fortunately, it’s not that hard to setup basic mxml auto complete functionality with a plain Eclipse [...]

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SEO basics

September 19th, 2008 · No Comments · PHP, Tools

I’ve been creating web applications for quite some time but never got interested in SEO (or Search Engine Optimization) until now. The primary reason I think is that most (if not all) of the web applications I’ve been developing are for internal use only (think Java and banks). But this outlook changed as my wife [...]

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Debugging cron tasks

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Tools

Being a *nix noob, I found it really hard to figure out the problem I had with a cron job last week. The fact that sendmail was disabled in the machine I was working on also didn’t help (no emails were sent during failed cron task execution). To workaround the problem, I found a useful [...]

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