Category: Web work

These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.

Dynamic Website Compressor

Dynamic Website Compressor

Dynamic Website Compressor

 

I haven’t tested it enough myself yet, but it looks very much like Google’s mod_pagespeed.  The difference mostly being with Google approaching the problem via the Apache module, which should be faster, but less portable; and Dynamic WebSite Composer doing all its magic in your regular PHP.  The only way I can think for this to work is via output buffering, so if you are using that in your application, test thoroughly.

PHP.net design updated

php.net

 

It’s been a long time pending, but finally, PHP.net updated the design of the website.  The new one doesn’t look anymore that it was done in 1974.  It’s fresh, nice, yet keeps somewhat of the same familiar feeling of the old one.  The search box looks to be updated as well.  I can’t say for sure, since I have a custom search on all my browsers to direct any search query that starts with “php” to php.net.  But it looks like now when you search, the completion will tell you what the dropdown results are – functions, books, etc.