Programming Archive

  • Crawljax 1.8 released

    Crawljax 1.8 released

    I’m working on a cool project for my master thesis: Crawljax. Crawljax is a website crawler that supports JavaScript. This is done by opening a real browser such as Firefox and controlling it via WebDriver. The core of Crawljax does only that: crawling websites. However, there is a very flexible plugin system available that allows [...]

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  • Wordpress 2.9 released

    Wordpress 2.9 released

    Wordpress 2.9 was just released. All in all this seems to be a great release again, including some features I had been looking forward to: Easier bulk plugin upgrades In browser image editing A trash for posts you remove, so you can undo it if necessary Upgrade now!

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  • Speeding up your website

    Speeding up your website

    A few days ago I stumbled upon the new Google “Let’s make the web faster”-page. I found some useful tips on there. Some of them are public knowledge, for example the fact that using echo in php is faster than print, single quotes are faster than double quotes and echo supports endless arguments, which is faster [...]

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  • My first Cherokee patch

    My first Cherokee patch

    I’ve been playing with Cherokee (the light-weight web server) for a while now. I really like the way their configuration file can be managed with cherokee-admin. This is basically a secured web page that provides a convenient interface to all of Cherokees settings. Although Cherokee is looks so great, I can’t switch the Ivaldi web server [...]

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  • Google Analytics API launched!

    Google Analytics API launched!

    Google just announced the public availability of the Google Analytics API. This is great news, because you can now write your own (web) applications that use the data from your analytics account. I might integrate this with the CMS we wrote for my company. The announcement is available here.

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  • Magic c-style comments

    Magic c-style comments

    A friend/collegea of mine had a really cool idea about c-style comments. C-style comments are multi-line comments that start with /* and end with */. They can be used in C, C++, C#, PHP, Java and a other languages. When this friend debugged some code, he found himself switching some blocks of code on and [...]

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